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...usually a back quadrangle or garden. Some of these are very large and are very beautifully kept. The buildings themselves are of great size and of the most substantial and enduring construction. So solid, and eternal, and venerable do they look that one might fancy that they were born with the earth...
...ball, the cricket, the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances of the young aristocracy, and the nameless air of academic refinement are the necessary and finishing requisites of an English gentleman. To be that is the ambition and aim of every well-born and well-bred English youth...
...argument that religion and politics should never be brought up for discussion, it does seem as if at Harvard a university club could be formed that might organize a capital petty congress; with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings...
Adrien Jacquinot, assistant professor of French in the university, died of pneumonia in Cambridge on Friday night between 9 and 10 o'clock after a three days' illness. Mr. Jacquinot was born at Darnay in the province of Vosges, France. His family belonged to what is known as the magistrate class, and had been officially connected with the government for generations. He was sent to Paris to educate himself for the law, where he studied with Genin, the celebrated philologist who was a personal friend of his family. While with him, he assisted in writing several articles in the "Nouvelle...
...Hedge, preached at Cornell on Sunday last. The Sun gives the following sketch of his life : "Dr. Hedge is now an old man. He was born, the son of a Harvard professor, in 1805. Among the friends of his boy-hood was the historian, George Bancroft, in company with whom, in 1818, he went to Germany, where he studied for several years before returning to take his own course at Harvard. His university and theological course completed he entered at once with all zest into the work of the Unitarian ministry, and during the thirty years ensuing gave...