Word: versions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. - French version of Thucydides. Please return at 41 Divinity...
...writer's memory serves him, there was a communication from the Mikado of Japan, in which he berated soundly the methods of teaching his melodious language, now in use at Harvard. He regarded, however, the large number of students who flock nightly to see Gilbert and Sullivan's truthful version of life in Japan, as a sure sign that his native language was finally becoming popular in America. About one o'clock, glasses were charged for the last time (?) and at the final toast of fair Harvard, all arose and the song was given with a will. Though this formally...
...hundred dollars, given for the purpose by John Osborne Sargent, of the class of 1830, will be awarded in one or more prizes for the best metrical version or versions (of sufficient merit) of a lyric poem of Horace. The whole amount may be awarded, at the discretion of the judges, to the competitor; or it may be divided among not more than three competitors in sums apportioned to the merits of their respective versions...
...versions must be neatly and legibly written upon letter paper of good quality, of quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. They must be deposited in the office of the Dean of the College Faculty on or before May 1, 1886. Each version must have inscribed upon its title-page an assumed name of the writer, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the writer's real name and superscribed with his assumed name...
...success if this change has not been made. We naturally feel no little regret at not having received a prospectus of this new edition, whereby we might learn it special superiority to the old, but having only the old regulations before us, we cannot venture to recommend the recent version. We merely urge upon all that they be no slower to censure than they are to praise; and if treated in this fair way, we believe that the regulations will live or die as they deserve...