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...valuable a course eligible for as many students as possible. Take a look at the Tabular View and see if it bears out this supposition. We find History 7 placed at nine o'clock, and in actual conflict with the Senior and Junior Greek course, with the advanced Latin composition course, with both the English courses, two German courses, all the advanced French courses, and two other History courses, together with several courses in Mathematics and Chemistry...
...previous years; there will be this year, at the most, only thirty. It has always been a matter of regret that more have not thought it worth their while to come to these exercises; comparisons have been made between the attendance at the public speaking in the Boston Latin School and at the speaking for the Boylston Prizes, much to the credit of the former. Now that so few are to speak compared with former years, and those few are to be selected by reason of their excellence, none can plead the length and dulness of the exercises...
...here, and read the lesson entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will...
Monday, 17th, Latin 6, Mass...
...Latin...