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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England as may be found in Germany, and gives as a reason the narrow way in which Englishmen have devoted themselves to the mere text, instead of striving for a comprehensive view, through his plays, of the man Shakspere himself, both in his youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination...
...pursued in College, one by each class. The question of the nature of these studies excited some debate, but finally the following plan was approved: The Freshman Class should pursue an extended and thorough course in Ethics, the class being divided into five sections. Each section should use text-books in a different language, Greek, Latin, English, German, and French, with an extra first-year honor section in Sanscrit. For the Sophomores the study selected as most important was Rhetoric. The same division into five languages was to be resorted to, and, besides the use of text-books, each Sophomore...
...conveniently studied during the year, and if all facilities are improved it is not incredible that in a single year more may be learned where almost every word uttered and line written are those of another language, than here where the same subject is found only in text-books...
Poor thing! Her hands must have been rather full, unless, as is suggested by the text, she carried her rustic song in her basket. She finds the old man and disclaims weariness...
...also investigating the Echinoderms. It is believed that these investigations will be carried on by his son, Alexander Agassiz. He had made large collections of eggs for the purpose of examining the embryological growth of birds. It was his intention during the present winter to publish a text-book for the use of the undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals...