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...second game between the Harvard nine and the J. L. Whiting nine proved close and exciting. Our batting was weak until the eleventh inning when by a succession of sharp clean hits aided by errors, we scored seven runs, breaking the tie and winning the game. The features of the game for Harvard were the batting of baker and Lowell, the catching of Allen and Lovell's fielding. For J. L. Whiting the brilliant but erratic shortstops play of Sullivan and the fielding of Mullen were noticeable...
...eleventh volume of the "Statesmen" series, Thomas Jefferson, by Jno. T. Morse, Jr., appeared yesterday...
Professor Henry J. S. Smith of Oxford, whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank...
...exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect of the eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring...
...covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines each, so that there are seventy-two columns in all. Of the poem about a third has been recovered, which includes fragments of all twelve cantos. Two cantos are preserved almost entire. In the eleventh canto is found a very interesting account of the deluge. It was the description of the sending out of the birds in this canto that was discovered first. This account resembles in many points the description given in Genesis, each account of course being affected by local influences...