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...which is served best by Greek literature, that the study of Greek, becoming more rational in its methods, will go on in a constantly increasing degree. "Women will again study Greek as Lady Jane Grey did. I believe that in that chain of fords with which the fair host of the amazons is engirding the English universities, I find that in the happy families of your mixed American universities out West, they are studying it already." This is certainly a sanguine view. Hitherto Greek has seemed to be the bane of the female race, and it is certainly...
Cornell University gets a particularly fine Egyptian mummy from Mr. Pomeroy, American consul general at Cairo. It is something over 3500 years old, and the covering of pasteboard bears a host of figures and inscriptions which are yet plain...
...alone here, especially as I have forgotten a good deal of my Arabic. Don't you think, my dear fellow, you and I could manage to give them the slip? Run away from them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny to him, and the "tal'h trees with piles of fruit, the outspread...
...better than it was a few years ago and now a rage for attractive illuminated covers has sprung up. The idea of a decorative cover for a college paper originated with the Lampoon; and the laughing knight on his winged horse has long been a familiar object among the host of college exchanges. For many volumes this hardy pioneer was alone in this untried field, nor did it seem as if any other college would dare follow his lead. The papers continued to come out in their sober coats of black and white. A simple heading of large type...
Students, after a sumptuous repast, to host: "Our compliments to your kitchen and cellar. We have agreed to have a running match, and the one who comes out last will pay the bill. Will you kindly give us a signal to start?" The beaming host slowly counts one, two, three; the students disappear round the corner and are seen no more. - [Fliegende Blatter...