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...would urge all who are interested in English literature to attend these readings, where they can hear the comments and opinion of one of the first of Shaksperian scholars. This course, which Professor Child has so kindly thrown open to the students at large, and Professor Bocher's lectures on Moliere, are opportunities not to be neglected. We hope they will be but the forerunners of a series of lectures on English and foreign literature...
LAST Tuesday Professor Child gave his first reading in Shakspere. It was very largely attended, at least one hundred and ten students being present. The lesson was the first part of Macbeth. The notes and comments were interesting, and well repaid the extra hour taken from our recess...
...poetry of this is in the first line, where "years" are beautifully imagined to be lying between "death" and "tears." We fail to see the connection of death and tears with Greece and Rome, or why a man should search so eagerly for years at all. The next couplet is intended to show the high tone prevalent among the writer's acquaintances, but it can only happen in Montreal that joy is a regular "befaller" in woe and care. The denouement is certainly very sad; but it is at once seen that "he" would prefer even a gin-cocktail...
...inexperience of society than for want of ability or attainments; and it is by no means rare for a man to make a signal failure in one place, and to have an equally signal success in a second, in which he has profited by the experience of the first. A year or two in a school may save the teacher one remove, if not more, when he shall have become a doctor or a minister...
...them to fill all the places opened from year to year, it would be an imposition upon the public for any others to offer their temporary services. But these born teachers are comparatively few; next to them, in merit and serviceableness, come young men fresh from college. Their first year is often their best. They have to study a great deal through that year, and teach only what they have just been carefully reviewing. They are manly enough to command respect, and yet retain sympathy enough with boyhood to win the attachment of their pupils. They have not encountered...