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Dauntless thou singest, Prince of modern song...
ADDITIONAL prizes for Bowdoin Dissertations have been awarded as follows: a prize of seventy-five dollars to N. G. Taylor, '80, for a translation into Greek; a prize of seventy-five dollars to J. Quincy, '80, for a dissertation on Lucretius as the Precursor of Modern Positivism and Fatalism...
...contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People wonder at the increase of weak eyes, of brain disease, and insanity among...
...next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping...
...Railway System of the United States considered as a Factor in the Polity of Great Britain and America." March 11, E. Atkinson, Esq., "A National Banking System Essential to the Effective Working of the Railway Service, and to the Subsistence of the People." March 18, Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., "The Modern Use and Abuse of Credit." Lectures begin, in Boylston Hall, at 7.30 P.M. Tickets free, to be had at Sever's, or of members of the Club...