Word: french
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...wish to plead for the establishment of courses in Ancient and Modern English, which shall make the attainment of Final Honors a possibility. Honors in Modern Languages are based mainly on French and German. But there are no motives to urge men to a careful study of English, except the excellence of the instruction given, or love for the subject. Is our literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. This week and next, the Kiralfy Brothers' "Enchantment," with its gorgeous theatrical effects, will be given. January 3, Salvini for two weeks (eight performances). First week, "Othello," Monday and Saturday; "Hamlet," Wednesday; "La Morte Civile," Friday. "French Flats" on off nights...
ADMISSION conditions in Modern and Physical Geography, Physical Science, English Composition, French, and German may be made up at special examinations to be held at the close of the Christmas recess...
...then come out from hearing Gerster in the "uproar" and go right into Music II., or from Henry Cinque or Henri Five and recite in English II., or from the ballet into French...
...about an enemy, but I am certain that I can do nothing better than to paint Antigone beside her name, either as she is, might, or should have been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference of the earth, and with market baskets in their hands...