Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PHIL. 18.- Chapters I and II of Herbert Spencer's Essay on Education to be read for Monday...
...Copeland's lecture on Fannie Burney yesterday afternoon was very entertaining. The life and humorous characteristics of Miss Burney and her brilliant circle of friends, including Johnson, Burke and Garrick, received more attention than her writings. The reading was from Macaulay's "Essay on Madam d'Arblay,"- Fannie Burney-and from the novelists own works, including selections from her diary...
...Newton 1 G., is the author of "The Recent Crisis in India," a political and historical essay of a good deal of weight. He seems to be a master of his subject and of the historical style of Macaulay. The paragraphing in particular reminds one of Macaulay's rhetorical methods...
...mainly social and political-a fact which at first strikes the reader with surprise-is explained in the preface; it is merely because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been...
...original essay in Latin, of 2000 to 2500 words, on any subject chosen by the competitor...