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PROFESSOR NORTON, on Tuesday last, gave the first of a series of twelve readings, in English, from the Divine Comedy, which are to be given in the Hawthorne rooms, Park Street, Boston, at 12 M., on successive Tuesdays and Saturdays. The object of these readings is to give a connected view of the Divine Comedy. Books for subscribers' names may be found at A. Williams & Co., Little, Brown, & Co., and Doll and Richards'. The course of readings from the Odyssey, to be given by Professor Palmer, is postponed, owing to his absence...
...accomplish its apparent object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...
...furnish the papers to students by publishing little pamphlets, each of which will contain a set of papers upon one subject. Students can then buy only the papers they wish, and can have them in a much handier form than before. This method is followed in the English universities, and no doubt will be successful if adopted here...
Study hours were strictly kept; and "cuts" from recitations or lectures were fined thirty-three cents. The students were obliged to declaim alternately in English and in one of the ancient languages...
...Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin had no rank at home: Cambridge was no University Four, but a volunteer party from the various College Rowing Clubs; the London Four had only two of its regular men. We notify English oarsmen that when they beat Columbia, they beat a crew never within sight of the American Amateur championship...