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...Sumner's name is not among them. At the junior exhibition (April 28, 1829) Frost, Andrews, and Sumner were assigned parts in a Greek dialogue, respectively as mathematician, linguist, and orator. Sumner in maintaining the superior claims of the orator was unconsciously some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes and Pericles, examples of former days, will be like stars to point out the pathway to glory, and their glory will always...
...Gummere, lately instructor in English at Harvard, contributes an article on "The English Personal Pronoun" to the last number of the American Journal of Philology...
...result of the examination to remove entrance conditions in English Composition can be learned at the office...
...object of the school, which corresponds to the English school of Rugby, is to fit its forty or fifty students, who are all the way from 15 to 19 years old, for the German universities. Any student who has received a sufficiently good certificate here may enter a university without further examination...
...McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college. Mr. Mckinney's Choctaw speech, so well delivered in his native tongue and then in English, on commencement day, was a feature of special interest. It was received with so much applause that Mr. Charles Dudley Warner in presenting the English Prize Scholarship, remarked that "Choctaw must be the favorite language in Salem." This demonstration of approval showed the good will and sympathy of the many...