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Ralph Waldo Emerson entered the freshman class, in his fourteenth year, in 1817. Dr. Kirkland was then president of the university and Edward Everett professor of Greek literature. Among the other professors were Edward Channing and Ticknor. Emerson was greatly influenced throughout his course by the inspiration which Ticknor brought...
In the last number of the Nation is an interesting letter concerning the late Prof. Sophocles. From it we learn the following facts: While yet a boy, Prof. Sophocles left his native village in Thessaly and went to a monastery at Cairo, where he devoted himself chiefly to the Greek...
The following from one of the daily papers explains itself. "For the first time a woman has been appointed as one of the lecturers to the Oxford Association for the Education of Women, and the name of Mrs. Marshall appears in the notice of lecturers issued for the next term...
A prose fantasy by the English poet Lang, describes the beauties and mysteries of an ideal Oriental Paradise concluding his description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with...
M. Girard has bequeathed to the French Association for the Advancement of Science a capital sum of $20,000, the interest of which is to be devoted every five years to the encouragement of researches into the antiquity of man and his relation to geological ages.