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...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 the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly...
...Members of this section who have not yet handed it in will kindly leave it at 30 Gray's Hall as soon as possible. Theme VII. will be due on Tuesday, Feb. 12. Subject: The Merits and the Faults of the Present Instruction in English...
...papers experience no little difficulty in obtaining sufficient matter for publication, and some of them even offer prizes for best contributions. It is hard to see why this should be so. There can be no practice of more after use to college men than exercise in composition in the English language, and it is extraordinary that the majority of them do not try their hands at it. One would suppose that the college papers would have vastly more communications sent to them than they could possibly find room for, but the case is exactly the opposite. Other papers are constantly...
...truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow from a similar investigation into our own, as well as into English and German academical history, and that it would not be found that the men most useful and successful in after-life were not those who had placed themselves most fully under the influence of college training, or been stimulated to exertion by mere hope of college rewards, but those...
...important colleges. A few years ago when the pronounciation was changed here at Harvard, much dissatisfaction was at first expressed in the preparatory schools, as it was readily seen that the same change must be made there if the pupils were to be fitted for Harvard. The English method was held up as important on account of its analogy to the English language, enabling beginners to remember and spell Latin words more easily. However, the disadvantages which the representatives of these schools met upon entering Harvard and other colleges where the new method was used soon induced the authorities...