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...colleges have to spend much of their time and strength in teaching the A B C of their mother tongue to young men of 20-work disagreeable in itself, and often barren of result. Every year Harvard graduates a certain number of men-some of them high scholars-whose manuscript would disgrace a boy of 12; and yet the college cannot be blamed, for she can hardly be expected to conduct an infant school for adults...
...read written lectures, some speak with few notes, and some with no notes at all. Few make any attempt at oratorical effect, and as the students' eyes are generally on the note books, such an attempt would be largely wasted. One lecturer, who is quite near sighted, lays his manuscript on the high desk before him, over which only the top of his head is visible to the students, and reads steadily, or putting his hands in his pockets lounges back in his pulpit, where he is only visible to those at the side. Almost all the lecturers drop...
...Gosse, for the greater part of the time, talked in an informal way about his edition of Gray's works and the "finds" he had made of Gray's works, and the "finds" he had made of Gray's manuscript. "Chips from a Cambridge workshop," was what Mr. Gosse called this informal talk. Mr. John Morley. He said, had started to write up Gray for the English Men of Letter series, but had bequeathed his literary work to Mr. Gosse. From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray...
...Institute of Technology is to have a very large exhibit at the New Orleans fair. The exhibit will consist of specimens of work done by the students in wood and metal turning, in forging and casting, in mechanical, architectural and topographical drawings, manuscript books explaining the systems and methods employed in the various departments of the institution, and many other things too numerous to mention...
...Brown, associate of John Hopkins. It deals only with the history of Maryland before the Revolution, when it was, as Mr. Brown says, a Palatinate. Wrtten in an easy style, it quickly commends itself to the reader. The authorities for the statements contained in it are the original manuscript records and archives of the state. This volume fills a want long felt, and will be of particular service in History in preparation...