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...mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment of this custom, however, it would seem as if the real excuse for the use of Latin in the catalogue were no longer valiad...
...pamphlet has been issued by the Yale faculty, containing the optional scheme, with explanations and comments. Some changes have been made on the list published in the summer, especially in the department of English and Anglo-Saxon literature. The changes will make it possible to obtain a very through knowledge of this important subject...
...that we should have modern names for modern things, and especially for modern persons. Latin undoubtedly has its place in every college education, and we should regret to see anything infringe upon synch a language, but we do not think a list of names, some of which are pure Anglo-Saxon, affords a favorable opportunity for observing the beauties of the Latin language...
...several warnings. First, don't be discouraged if you fail to see any beauty in authors who receive high praise. Tastes differ, and some of these authors may in themselves be unfitted for us. Another disturbing influence is that caused by critical students of the history of literature, (especially Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This...
...Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor one of the most distinguished...