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...United States) entitles any one to membership and the Society's publications for the year, among the first of which will be the first two quartos of Romeo and Juliet, Greenes Groatesworth of Wit, (1596) 'Kind-Harts Dreame' (1593), 'Englandes Mourning' Garment' (1603), Ancient Mysteries, with a Morality, etc...
...best French authors; but nothing is read except what has particular reference to rhetoric or style; as, for example, the Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required to make literary analyses of the works I have cited, and to prepare French...
...this part of the examination is successfully passed, there comes next the oral trial, which consists of the explication at sight of a passage from a French, Latin, and Greek author; a question in history, geography, and philosophy, together with several upon the sciences, - physics, chemistry, arithmetic, geometry, etc. There is also a degree conferred called the Baccalaureat-es-Sciences, in which the sciences are the principal element. In order to attain the Baccalaureat-es-Sciences, it is necessary, at the end of the seventh class, instead of entering upon the eighth, to follow a scientific course. A year...
...Thwing. Arguing from the great names which our roll contains already he predicted a glowing future, and his reply was one of the best of the evening. After the regular toasts many informal ones were proposed and drunk, among which were the Advocate, Magenta, C. T. Co., etc. The "Odes," written by Mr. C. A. Dickinson and Mr. R. W. Curtis, were finely rendered by the chorus...
...with great interest. He was followed by Professor William Everett, who spoke of some of the peculiarities of student life in the English Universities, alluding to the manner in which students there eat together in their own rooms as worthy of imitation here. In regard to oratory, boating, etc., in which we are apt to consider ourselves far behind English students, his remarks were most flattering. Mr. F. C. Faulkner, President of the Magenta board, next responded to the toast of "the Magenta." Mr. Griswold, '75, was present to represent the contributors, who were next toasted. Mr. Dana spoke...