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...been determined, therefore, to try the experiment next year of having a course in German in which the "classic" writers and composition shall have no place, and in which the sole aim shall be to familiarize those who take it with the general style of modern German writers on history and philosophy. No single author or work will be used, but essays and lectures on historical and kindred subjects by professors at the different German universities. If they can be obtained in a cheap form, some of the following historical monographs will be read in the course. If not these...
...memorable evening my idol fell from his lofty pedestal. I saw him descend to the telling of jokes, and to would-be imitation of a funny character. Alas! I went home that night with "Ilium fuit," "Ilium fuit," ringing in my ears, varied now and then with the more modern refrain of "Babylon is fallen." Years have passed since then, but the event still awakens painful echoes in my memory...
...Hamilton, of England. It was a rare chance to procure scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister at $20 a dozen lessons was nowhere. The lecture-room had a raised platform at one end, on which the Professor stood, and the walls were adorned with prints of ancient and modern athletes. There were Herr Milo, of Croton, the renowned deadweight lifter; M. Dares and P. Entellus, as they stood in the ring on the 12th of April, 1182 B. C., drawn by P. Virgil Maro, "Clipper" correspondent; Professor Socrates, in his great standing feat; portraits of Mr. Aristotle, Mr. Leibnitz...
...these languages. Since this is so, we must conclude that there was to him something particularly unexpected about the sounds of English. In fact, there is as little in the sounds of the English language that indicates that it came, for the most part, from the same source with modern German, as there is in the formation of the coast of the English island to show that it was once joined to the mainland of Europe...
...first-class newspaper, with all the modern improvements, will also have a blank for fashionable weddings, just as convenient in its way as the marriage service, and with little but names to be supplied. Here different papers vary a little from each other; but the form in use by one of our prominent journals will serve very well as an example...