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...changes have been made lately in the faculty. The chair of English Literature is now being filled by Prof. Brown, late president of Hamilton College, who now is engaged in hearing the juniors. Prof. Sanborn, instructor in Anglo-Saxon and English Literature, who is now engaged with the seniors, has resigned, his resignation to take effect at the end of this college year. In his retirement the college loses an old and valued instructor who has remained with the institution for many years...
...cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American boy's education, as much as fencing or quarter-staff was in the days of "Bluff King...
...Chautauqua courses begin this year on July 8th. The School of Languages will give instruction in German, French, classical and ecclesiastical Latin and in classical Greek, "Hellenistic Greek," Hebrew, Anglo-Saxon and English literature...
...English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses. It is but a vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with a prospect of having such study recognized as at least equal...
...with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner's all-pervading influence were noticeable in the first movement (allegro con brio), and in the last (allegro vivace). We should certainly take pride in the success of our Professor in a branch of art so rarely attempted by Anglo-Saxon genius...