Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lived in Boscawen, and prepared boys for college at one dollar a week, for tuition and board. During his stay with Dr. Woods, he was very neglectful of his academic duties, and on one occasion, when he was told for some misdemeanor to learn a hundred lines of Virgil, he gained a reward of a day to be given up to pigeon shooting by committing a whole book of the AEneid...
Theme I. will be due on Thursday, November 20. Subjects: I. A translation of one of the following passages, viz. (1) Odyssey IX. 502-460, (2) Virgil, Eclogue IV., (3) Livy. I. 57-58. 2. The Presidential Election of 1884. 3. The Shakspers Society at Harvard. 4. My Favorite Novelist. 5. The Last Harvard-Yale Boat-Race. 6. Torchlight Processions. 7. A Legitimate Purpose of a College Course. 8. Henry Irving, Actor and Manager...
...translation of one of the following passages, viz:- (1) Odyssey IX, 402-460, (2) Virgil, Eclogue IV, (3) Livey...
...recent scanning match at Bidhaeg University, Ohio, John Tobias Canner took first money, breaking the record by scanning one hundred lines of Virgil...
...week's Nation reviews Professor Greenough's edition of the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics, and Dr. Peabody's translation of "Cicero de Officis." In a view of an English edition of the 'Trinummus' of Plautus the presentation of the play at Westminster School is characterized as a performance which "will light up the 'Trinummus' wonderfully, even for those who read it under the Pope Professor at Harvard College...