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...class. The question of the nature of these studies excited some debate, but finally the following plan was approved: The Freshman Class should pursue an extended and thorough course in Ethics, the class being divided into five sections. Each section should use text-books in a different language, Greek, Latin, English, German, and French, with an extra first-year honor section in Sanscrit. For the Sophomores the study selected as most important was Rhetoric. The same division into five languages was to be resorted to, and, besides the use of text-books, each Sophomore should be required to write...
...LINCOLN, Proctor, has taken the last three Latin divisions of the Freshman Class, to assist Professor Everett...
...must be remembered, too, that though a student in College may elect several courses in Greek and Latin, he is limited to but one in French and German each. An exception, however, was made in favor of those absent last year by allowing them to substitute a modern language for anticipated Philosophy...
...YOUTH beginning Latin astonished his schoolmistress by translating Virgin: Vir, a man; gin, a trap; virgin, a mantrap...
WITH the close of the last week those Seniors who elected Latin 7 for the present year ended their labors in that most interesting department of the law. It was with much reluctance that they finally took this step, for the study was so entirely satisfactory that the affection which even on such short trial had been formed for it was not easily overcome. But, after all, it was a thing of a useless kind; well enough, perhaps, for those with a fondness for it, but certainly not worth a serious consideration from a body of men having, like...