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...president paid a tribute to the memory of Prof. Sophocles, and called upon Mr. Edwin H. Abbott to say a few words about him and his last moments. Mr. Abbott stated that after his death many letters were discovered showing his kindliness. He had been in the habit of sending presents to the monks on Mount Sinai, amongst whom he had been educated as a boy, and had never forgotten them. "Lauriger Horatius" was then sung, and the company dispersed...
...little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays he drops a bit of autobiography full of interest. "The regular course of studies," he says, "the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded...
...classics in English literature in consequence of this indolence. In this connection the examination system of the present day comes up. "Among all the evils that follow in the train of a regular system of examinations," says the writer, "we know of none greater than a certain habit of indolence which it forms in the mind. It encourages a student-nay, even in the press of competition it almost forces him-to accept his judgments ready-made. He wants to know what others say of a writer, not what the writer himself says. He has no time to take...
Persons who use the reading-room of the library should remember that it was established for the use of all and not for the convenience of any one personally. This fact seems frequently to be forgotten. It is a habit of certain individuals to collect all the latest issues of the most popular magazines on entering the room, and then settle themselves down for a comfortable read, without a thought that they are leaving unused at the time three or four magazines which other men might like to see. It is nothing but an injustice for a man to keep...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.- Several years ago the professor was in the habit of visiting our family quite frequently, so that I often came in contact with him. There were a few of the professors at whose homes he was always welcome and he regularly, at that time, dined with us on Sundays. He would breakfast and dine early with others, but at 6 o'clock he would appear at our house for his second Sunday dinner. In the evenings when worked up he was fond of relating how the Turks decapitated condemned prisoners. Standing in the middle of the room...