Word: addison
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...lecture course. Its rare meeting, the vast amount of work to be accomplished in it, and the great size of the section demand this. When three weeks are given to one short poem of Johnson in a course which both in recitation and examination neglects the works of Addison through a lack of time, that poem should possess a higher literary value than any poetry that Dr. Samuel Johnson ever wrote. The work of English VII. is intended to examine the authors of a century. That century covered the lives of such writers as Swift, Addison, Steele, Young, Thomson, Richardson...
...make a complete history of Harvard University during thes period. The reports of lectures, of the symphony concerts, college bulletins, accounts of base ball games, and contests at this and other colleges, should make the CRIMSON an indispensable part of college life. "We would therefore," in the words of Addison, "recommend these our productions to all well disposed students that set apart a half hour in every morning for tea, bread and butter, and would heartily advise them for their good, to order the paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as part...
...half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest Demosthenes and a few other Greek writers...
...next theme in English 8 is due Dec. 10th. Subject, Addison...
...much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember the wonderful "knacd" the poet Addison had of reeling off good hexameter verse, a "knack" not his alone, but common to most of the then students of average ability, we may form some idea of the system pursued at that time. It is said that even in the present age in the northern countries of Europe...