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...English 6, Sever...
...same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons, declined to enter their service...
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...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...
...held a travelling fellowship from that institution. After graduation he spent one year in Germany in the study of philosophy. Subsequently he spent three years at Johns Hopkins University, where he took the degree of doctor of philosophy with high honors. He has recently been assistant professor of English Literature at the University of California. Dr. Royce has written numerous articles for Mind, the English magazine of psychology, and for the Californian. His writings have been of a philosophical and literary character - "Philosophy in literature and literature in philosophy," Dr. James has termed them. In his philosophical tendencies...