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...papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon be put in the room...
...When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern Greek. He was the author of a large number of books on the Greek language, his principle work being a "Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods" Professor Sophocles was a very learned scholar and a most successful teacher...
...undergraduates who were fined ten pounds may congratulate themselves that they were not Parisian students in the Latin Quarter, or German students at Heid-lberg. In any country but England, their piece of sportiveness would have been atoned for in that kind of seclusion which is the nearest modern approach to the old monastic life...
...leading colleges and academies and was everywhere of the same type. The college curriculum centered on the classics and the mathematics, with marked attention to that type of mental and moral philosophy most in favor with the clerical class. Science was taught chiefly from text-books, with history, modern languages, and English literian in a rapidly diminishing scale. These institutions were all under the influence of the different religious denominations, and their presidents adn professors were largely drawn from the clergy. The higher education was only for men, there being no schools for girls in the country where a thorough...
...question of allowing students the option of substituting modern languages for Greek is fast approaching a decision at Harvard. The battle appears to be between the faculty and the overseers, and in the anti-Greek party are President Eliot, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Supt. Seams of the Boston public schools, and, of course, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Professor Agassiz favors the reform party.-[Graphic...