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Taking a page from Thackeray in the reverse, the Professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology advised the graduating class to imitate the snob, not to ridicule or despise him. Perhaps this was simply Professor Rogers's way of startling the bourgeois young engineers. Or it may be that, as he intimated, they had been so long living under the shadow of Harvard's snobbery that a little irony had to be expended upon the contrast. Yet it was with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order...
This evening at 8.30 o'clock, C. T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will read at the Union from the works of the great Victorians, including Browning, Dickens, Tennyson, and Thackeray. Preceding his reading, he will deliver a short address on Browning and Tennyson in particular...
...Monday, March 25, in the Dining Room of the Harvard Union. Professor Copeland will make a brief address on Tennyson and Browning, followed by a reading of some of the most noted and best liked selections from their works, as well as from the works of Dickens and Thackeray. Last year, the readings were from Shakespeare and the King James version of the Bible...
...Thackeray", Dr. Maynadier, Sever...
...Thackeray". Dr. Maynadier, Sever...