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LUIGI MONTI, ESQ., formerly Professor of Italian in Cambridge, is at present delivering lectures on Modern Italian Literature at the Lowell Institute. The lectures take place every Wednesday and Saturday evenings, and are of great merit...
...keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books I need not say much. You are not fool enough to throw away your money on second-rate second-hand editions of ancient classics, nor yet to overload yourself with modern English novels. French novels are all right, and a few of them will help your reputation as a linguist. The only rule that I shall bore you with is never to read - far less buy - any book that is not worth talking about. Within that limit you had better pick...
...classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle have not in some strange manner been merged into one, and are standing before you." He goes into English I. and hears "the learned comments of the fat professor"; does up Memorial Hall, and departs, to criticise other "institutions of learning...
...Juniors have elected Modern Languages...
...University - small, classic, and containing more interests than it can peaceably hold - may well be compared to Greece itself. The societies, of which we all are so proud, are not unlike the elegant states which grew up in the genial climate of Attica and of the Peloponnesus, - the modern prototype of which may be found in the shadow of the elms of the College Yard. And, to carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body of non-society men are not unlike the semi-barbaric peoples of Illyria...