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...taught the principles of rhetoric and were required to practice English composition and once a month declaim. (7) Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning, all the students were taught "Divinity Catecheticall" and at nine o'clock "Common Places." These latter were common topics of scholastic discussion and digests of doctrine, argument or opinion. (8) The last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature of plants in summer, Historia civil...
Wheaton's Digest of Int. Law, Vol. II, 15 of; When treaties become voidable see Int. Law, Hall, p. 294-297; The Bulwer-Clayton Treaty; Treaties and Conventions of the U. S., p. 377; Lawrence's Essays on Mod. Int. Law, Essay III, Part...
...make a digest of the volume would be tedious, for in it only a summary of statistics could be given, and most unsatisfactorily, for speeches such as those eminent graduates delivered at the various dinners do not bear condensing, while every student is acquainted with the undergraduate parts and the CRIMSON - for facts, such as the boat race of the undergraduate day - the authority of the book, has already made the readers of this familiar with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure...
Although Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in Boston and is a Harvard man, Yale students would do well to "read. mark, and inwardly digest" that one of his many good sayings which states in substance,, "the three cardinal sporting virtues are to put up, pay up, and shut up." Although the final heat of the 100 yard run in the recent inter collegiate games was close, the facts published in our report of the meeting should be accepted as supporting the decision of the judges, and nothing more need be said. But several ardent Yalesains are still perturbed about the matter...
...James Russell Lowell's admirable extemporaneous address at the opening of Bryn Mawr College for women will never be circulated. The trustees relied upon the reporters of the daily press, but there was no stenographer present, and only a digest of his views has been preserved. In fact, very few public addresses are now reported in full in the daily press. - Harper's Weekly...