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...advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern tongue; the study of Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with especial attention to surveying and other practical applications; and a careful and thorough study of Arabic, the language of the interior. History and the modern languages are also studied. The aim of the institution is to furnish a practical, useful education to the young...
...although there were no parallel bars, they had an apparatus corresponding to our horizontal bar and also flying rings. However, the Greeks did not strive to excel in these gymnastic tricks as much as in boxing, wrestling and running. The boxing of the ancients, as we know from Virgil, was of a very cruel nature, the principal idea being not to kill a man, for that was prohibited by law, but to come as near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition...
...class secretary has just received a letter from Mr. LaFarge, the artist, in which he says that the whole of their class window will probably be in place in Memorial Hall before commencement day. The sketch of the Virgil is finished and the Homer is well under way. The figures are to stand out in rich color from a very pale background. Mr. LaFarge has been in bad health for the last year, and work on the window has been repeatedly delayed by sickness...
...Parker will read "The Struggle with Turnus," Virgil's Aeucid, Book 12, in Sever 11 at 7.30 P. M. today...
...Parker will read the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid in Sever 11 this evening...