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...when an organization will be perfected and rooms secured as near down town as possible. The resident membership is limited to five hundred. Among the additional three hundred odd men, who have signified their desire of joining, are the following Harvard men: T. B. Proctor, Henry Saltonstall, B. H. Ticknor, B. L. M. Tower, W. H. Coolidge, T. J. Coolidge, Charles Harrington, G. L. Osgood, W. E. Skillings, F. R. Stoddard, R. T. Paine, A. F. Wadsworth, W. C. Endicott. Jr., C. T. Lovering, C. R. Codman, J. D. Bryant, Robert Codman, H. S. Hovey, W. M. Richardson...
...Does not Calderon's continual disregard of all the "Unities" justly exclude him from the rank of great Dramatic Poets? (Consult Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature on "Unities," on "The Dramatic School of Hofe de Vega," and (passim) on "Calderon...
...generally known that our library contains some thirty volumes of Goethe's works presented and inscribed by the author. Goethe's interest in Harvard was aroused by his fried Dr. Cogswell, who, with Ticknor, Hedge and Bancroft, was among the first to rouse an interest in German learning in this country...
...members of the association to Harvard, went on to compare the instruction given in modern languages in college now and in former times. He said that the Smith professorship, founded in 1816, was the first professorship of modern languages in the country. It has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. Since its foundation this branch of study has been on an equality with mathematics and the classics. The staff of instructors has constantly been growing, and Harvard has even numbered a president of the United States among her professors-John Quincy Adams...
...received at the library. Some are bought with fine money, many are given, but the greater portion are purchased with the income of the various bequests left to the University for buying books. The only American publishing house which regularly presents the library with its publications is that of Ticknor and Co., of Boston. Useful works of other houses are purchased at the request of instructors and those connected officially with the library. Among the most recent acquisitions is an assortment of books in French, chiefly on educational and historical subjects. A large box of German books was received...