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...that a number of Harvard students are incapable of translating a Greek or Latin sentence, which requires more than the most elementary knowledge of the languages, after their freshman year. In Oxford this is not the case. Greek and Latin are kept up by the student until the classic works are as familiar to him as are the productions of his own countrymen. Oxford men quote ancient languages in their daily conversation. The reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier...
...Style of the Letters of Junius. 3. Why are the Wages of Women lower than those of Men? 4. The New Tariff. 5. Is there such a thing as American Literature? 6. Journalism as a Profession. 7. Gentleman-farming. 8. A Metrical Translation of one hundred lines from any classic or foreign poet. 9. An Account of the Assassination of President Lincoln...
...Style of the Letters of Junius. 3. Why are the Wages of Women lower than those of Men? 4. The New Tariff. 5. Is there such a thing as American Literature? 6. Journalism as a Profession. 7. Gentleman-farming. 8. A Metrical Translation of one hundred lines from any classic or foreign poet. 9. An Account of the Assassination of President Lincoln...
...grandeur of a marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that is possible. The motto of Cambridge rejects the common sense of the classic maxim and pretends that omnia possumus omnes - that we can be scholars, and learned and wise and witty, and be oarsmen and runners and blacksmiths, and all that sort of thing...