Word: goldsmith
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Lit. is good, as it nearly always is, and has some unusually good verse; but the Nassau Lit. is the best of the monthlies, with an excellent article on Goldsmith, a well-written, though rather sensational story, a very good critical article on Shakspere's two methods of suggesting time, as shown in Othello, and several short pieces on different subjects. The editors think we ought to have some new college songs, in which desire every one will agree with them who has the misfortune to room next to a Freshman who thinks "Naughty Clara" is the latest thing...
...different celebrated trotting horses in this country. He began with Boston Blue, who trotted in the year 1818, and among others he spoke of the following celebrities in the horse line, comparing their respective times: American Roan, Topgallant, Burster, Edwin Forrest, Lady Suffolk, Tacony, Flora Temple, Dexter, American Girl, Goldsmith Maid...
...Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having...
...Senior year the course is the De Senectute, Virgil's Bucolics, a book of Herodotus, and one of the Iliad, with geometry and logarithms. Besides these branches Shakespeare, Scott, and Goldsmith are studied to a certain extent in this year, and some time is devoted to French, physics, and modern and physical geography...
CORNELL. Ferris, Goldsmith, Stoddard, Schuyler, Anderson, Dutton (stroke...