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Professor Benjamin Apthorp Gould, the distinguished astronomer, died at his residence in this city on Thursday, at the age of seventy...
Professor Gould was born in Boston in the year 1824, the son of the late Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Lucretia Dana Goddard. In his youth he showed a taste for botany and when but ten years old wrote a lecture upon electricity, and his subsequent school career was one of high distinction. At nineteen he graduated from Harvard and for five years studied here and abroad. His study of astronomy was pursued under Gauss and in the scientific courses of Paris, also in the observatory there, then under the direction of Arago. On returning to America he was employed...
...Benjamin W. Wells, Ph. D.; Modern French Literature; Boston, Roberts Bros., 1896. In this work Mr. Wells has given both a companion and a guide to modern French literature. The plan of the work is distinctly good. Most of the book is given to tracing the evolution of literary ideals in France since the great Revolution. The chapters on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are consequently introductory to the large scope of the work. Particularly interesting are the chapters on the Romantic School and Hugo. The work is not at all technical, the style is pleasant...
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...Meriam '99, Benjamin D. Greene...