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...taking off my easel and leaving it there in the corner. What! Indiscretion, thy name is woman! Look, she has written her title, May Antigone Livingstone, on my easel. Some one has said we can do nothing worse than write a book about an enemy, but I am certain that I can do nothing better than to paint Antigone beside her name, either as she is, might, or should have been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery...
...words and actions, and that the Yale man had come along and taken her aboard, and when she came to had assured her that my trouble was intoxication, resulting from early imbibing, &c. I made my peace with Amy, explained, and was forgiven. I also mutilated a certain Fenson or Benson or something's olfactories for making such a statement concerning me : a profitable afternoon's work...
ABOUT one hundred and fifty Hancock men were present at the meeting last evening. The object of the meeting was stated, and a committee of five, Messrs Ivy, Markham, Tuckerman, Williams, and Otis, was appointed by the chair to draw up certain resolutions subject to the approval of the house. The following resolutions were drawn up and accepted...
...privilege of repeating English 2. The fact that entirely different plays of Shakspeare are read would seem to make it as independent a course as the second year of Greek 8 or 9 ; but the claims of the English language and literature are comparatively slight in the eyes of certain instructors. We do not think that our correspondent puts the case too strongly. The fact that the list of electives were handed in four months since; that no objections were then made, but on the contrary men were given to understand that English 2 would be regarded...
THOSE who have read the last annual report of the President will remember the recommendation contained there of establishing a system of promotion for instructors: a Tutor to be raised, after a certain time, to the rank of Assistant Professor; an Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. The recommendation met with the approval of all friends of education. Only recently there was a chance of carrying out the President's plan. But carried out it was not. By some good fortune Harvard was enabled to establish a chair in Sanskrit, - a subject for the tuition of which little financial...