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...There is to be the usual competition for the Prince Consort's Prizes for Modern Languages, some time during this month. The usual prizes will also be given for the English Essay and Latin Prose...
...Boston Library, entitled "Chronological Index of Historical Fiction, including Prose Fiction, Plays, and Poems." In the preface are numerous quotations from prominent authors, substantiating Mr. Winsor's views as to the value of fiction in supplementing historical studies of different periods. The different subjects treated are American, English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish and Portuguese, Germanic, Scandinavian, Sclavic, Turkish, Ancient Roman, Roman Imperial, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Asian, African, Australian History, and, last of all, Crusoe Literature. An extensive index at the end gives the men, place, subjects, events, etc., mentioned in the body of the book. Each subject...
...Rhetoric and English Literature - Messrs. Henry Lee, R. W. Emerson, George B. Chase, C. P. Cranch, W. J. Rolfe, Rev. Edward C. Guild, Mr Roger Wolcott...
...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...
...Columbia Spectator, we read of a gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...