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...expense of the many," but later on their minds were relieved. Happy thought! Perhaps the man who had mind enough to originate that card may be able to explain the "curve system" of marking used in German VII. and the lowness of the marks in English...
...Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage...
...which the trustees of the Library have shown in the selection of books will be surprised to learn that the poems of the Persian poet, Omar Khayam, are not on its shelves. The poems of Saadi and Hafiz are there, but, notwithstanding the fact that there is an elegant English translation of this astronomer poet, none of his works can be found in the College Library except his Algebra, and a few extracts from his verses published in the North American Review...
...Nicolas, who has made a literal translation into French, has given a mystical meaning to many of the voluptuous lines of the original; but the English poetical translation by Edward Fitzgerald, which is considered in every way the better, shows the old Persian in the light of an Epicurean and a "Materialist...