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...English 2 Mass...
...examination in English 5 will consist of a theme on Emerson, written in the examination room. This theme will count but little more than the regular ones, and will be numbered as one of them...
...title of 'Labor, the Economic Conditions of its Well-being,' and the course commenced on 21st. inst." Whilst American colleges for the education of women, such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, have honored many women with appointments as professors and instructors, and Wellesley has a woman at its head, English female colleges have hitherto been contented with gentlemen. This is only another example to show how much farther woman has progressed in this country than in England, especially in self-independence. Not only in the matter of instructors are American women ahead of their sisters across the water...
...Johnson studied at Pembroke, and many of his copybooks and manuscripts are to be seen there. Blackstone, of law fame, was also a student of this college. Magdalen, although not the most celebrated for learning or age, has the most beautiful surroundings, and is perhaps a favorite among the English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery of Alfred the Great's palace, and although the large brass nose fixed over the gateway is picturesque it was added without doubt in late times...
...recent debate on the subject of classical studies among Dartmouth alumni, a graduate present said he had no sympathy with any movement intended to foster the study of Greek and Latin. He was a follower of Charles Francis Adams in that respect. The three greatest masters of English literature on the other side-Shakespeare, Erskine, and Cobbett-knew little Latin and less Greek. The same was true of Whittier, Greeley and Pinckney on this side...