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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interpretation of Homer were very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric age. So that with improved...
About twenty-five men have elected English 10. They are divided into two sections, one meeting Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 12 m., the other on Mondays and Fridays at 3 p. m., and Wednesdays at 11 a. m. The text-book used will be Coate's "Comprehensive Speaker." As the time is so limited, it is important that all members of the course should be present at every meeting...
...McKenzie, who preached in the Chapel last evening, took his text from Genesis xxiv, 12: "Send me good speed this day." The preacher said that in life many things were determined by chance. The Bible narratives as well as the history of our own lives are full of instances of the influence of luck. We must not on this account believe that life is all a lottery. It is a blessed thought that this is God's good world and that God must rule over...
...good stock of text-books for the second half-year...
...service opened with Costa's anthem, "Let the People Praise Thee," sung by Mr. D. M. Babcock, '77, with the choir. Dr. F. G. Peabody offered prayer, and led in the responsive reading of the ninety-first Psalm. The Rev. M. Gordon preached a short sermon, taking his text from the passage in the first chapter of John in which John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often...