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...Parker will read the "Fall of Troy" from Virgil's Eneid, Book II, this evening at 7.30 in Sever...
Greek 3 has now finished Book xv. of Homer's Odyssey. There will be an hour examination in this course before December, which may be substituted for parts of the mid-year examination. Two-thirds of the paper will be at sight, one-third will be on what has already been read...
...above is the title of an interesting little hand-book lately published by Messrs. Putnam of New York. The author is Dr. Wilder, Professor of Physiology at Cornell, and he treats of his subject in a thoroughly simple and practical way which makes the book particularly valuable. The work is divided into eleven general heads,-the Choice of Room, Food and Drink, Ventilation and Heating, D othing, Bathing Sleep, Exercise, Methods of Study, Cae of the Eyes, Stimulants and Narcotics and Hygenie and Morality. The whole is prepared with a few "maxims and general remarks" which are interesting and significant...
...without working directly after dinner and later than 10 P. M., he either has not learned how to employ his time, or is undertaking more than he can accomplish." Then follow some direction on the "care of the eyes," "stimulants and narcotics" and "hygenic and morality. "Altogether the little book is most valuable and we can hardly suggest a better investment for the average student than to obtain a copy...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...