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...from respectable old classical authors, as gleaned from our exchanges, says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus...
...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...