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...Canon Farrar has a book in press entitled "Success in Life...
...galleries of the chapel were well filled this morning by people who appreciated the fact that Canon Farrar. would speak a few words to the students. Canon Farrar began by saying that, connected as he was with the two English Universities, the names and institutions of Yale and the other prominent American colleges were familiar to him; that England's scholars and England's divines followed the researches of ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There...
President Porter gave a reception Wednesday evening in honor of Canon Farrar...
...Canon Farrar is to deliver a lecture at the church congress in New Haven, and will probably speak to the students after morning prayer some time during the week...
...discussion of classics has again been revived. Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after...