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...French Readings," edited by W. J. Knapp, Street professor of modern languages in Yale College, is just published...
...recent lecture Mr. Walker, M. P., claimed that the bicycle was one of the most wonderful inventions of modern time. It was a great temperance reformer, because it was impossible for a man to ride his bicycle if he were otherwise than sober. It was a great educational reformer, because it enabled persons to go from one end of the country to the other in a fortnight at little expense, and spend their holidays in a reasonable n a reasonable and rational manner...
...knowledge of the whole length and breadth of the Greek literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with...
...heads the list with 501 votes. His chief work is "In Memoriam." Next to Mr. Tennyson comes Mr. Ruskin with 462 votes; Mr. Matthew Arnold is third with 455, and Mr. Browning fourth with 448. Mr. Ruskin's chief work is, according to the number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with...
...routed their opponents, the struggle to lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting of the faculty the subject was introduced and discussed, but, of course, no definite action was taken, nor is it probable that any decisive steps will be taken in a matter of such vital importance until...