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...historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number...
Says the Boston Transcript: "Apropos of the Harvard Latin, how are coming generations to know whether the classic "Jacobus" of the quinquennial catalogue is the equivalent of the Semitic Jacob, pure and unadulterated, or the unadulterated, or the naturalized James...
...abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered to stock it with various creatures that creep, and more that crawl. It is even rumored that Jumbo is to find his last rest within the classic shades of the "terminal morraine." Tufts has not indulged in the luxury of an "Annex," but it has a pond. And it has a clay pit where the crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character of Tufts is shown in the students and their societies. Every...
...only my pup that I have with me for a day or two." We expected much, but not this. Wellesley girls keeping dogs! We look about us and feel at once at home when we catch sight of the frequent recurring name so familiar to our eyes, the classic "Bohn." We feel at once that we are in good society. Upon the walls are hung three fragments of a brown cane, a sign of "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," a tennis racket, a heliotype copy of the University of Pennsylvania's famous challenge, a broken base ball bat, a baby...
...time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does to Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery...