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...English literature during the eighteenth century. The plan pursued during the first half year kept this idea steadily in view, and the course of lectures proved to be one of the most instructive and exhaustive that could be expected. Several prominent authors were considered, and the students exhibited great interest in the work of the course. The work of the second half year has struck a rock in the person of "Old Dr. Johnson." For there weeks the course has been restricted to a microscopic, hypercritical examination of the "Vanity of Human Wishes." When it is remembered that the course...
...system as it is to see the connection between man and monkey. The evolution has been slow but certain. No government at all, Monarchic communities, Monarchic states, oligarchies, kingdoms, empires, limited Monarchic governments, and republics, present to us all the stages of governmental evolution; and they are of interest to us, inasmuch as they afford a certain standard or scale with which we can compare the past and present, and whereby we can determine the future development of college or educational, government...
...series of winter meetings of the H. A. A. was well inaugurated by the meeting of Saturday last. For some weeks past all indications had pointed to a meeting of unusual interest, and the event fully justified the expectations. The ample seating accommodations of the gymnasium were taxed to the utmost by the large audience which is invariably present at the winter sports. Among the faces in the graduates' seats were many that are familiar to the college men of to-day, while the presence of an occasional grey head served to show that the graduates of longer standing still...
...needs no particular introduction to their notice. Both by his long experience upon the stage, and the scholarly attributes of mind which distinguish him as an actor and manager, he is pre-eminently qualified to speak upon the subject of Dramatic Art. The college will await his coming with interest...
...great advantage over the ordinary debating society in their sharp contest of wits, and this in the practical experience, which such a vigorous contest produces. The experiment of holding a mock congress has been successful in several American colleges, and certainly ought not to fail at Cornell. The great interest and excitement of a lively convention ought to guarantee a hearty support to the plan, and the Cornell students, if they take hold of the matter with a will, certainly ought to have a good deal of amusement and benefit combined in their debates...