Word: virgil
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...from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept...
...Andrews, translating Virgil - " 'Three times I strove to cast my arms about her neck, and - 'that's as far as I got, Prof." "Well, Mr. Andrews, I think that was quite far enough...
...Greek and Latin the requisitions for mid-course honors are similar to those at Harvard. The special subjects for 1883 are in Greek, four books of the Odyssey; in Latin, the twenty-first book of Livy and two books of Virgil. It will be seen that these requirements are very much below those at Harvard...
...into Memorial Hall by the class of 1880, has been repeatedly delayed by the sickness of Mr. LaFarge, who is the artist employed, but it is probable that the window will be in place before the end of the college year. The subjects selected are Homer and Virgil...
...Dryden's Virgil done into Lat in by one Maro" was put up at a recent English auction...