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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came...
Some very scarce old books are offered for sale-mostly classics printed over one hundred years...
...work during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal subjects have fundamentally changed at Harvard within twenty years, and I suppose it is the case in other colleges. If, therefore, we are right in our present methods, what good would it do to teach the old methods? Take, for instance, the study of Natural Science. The method of teaching it twenty years ago was worse than useless. How long is it that a reasonable method of teaching natural science has been in use? About fifteen years at the outside. So in the twenty years I have been...
...SALE.- Handsome and well-bred white bull terrier pup, seven months old. Ears foxed; house broken. Address Charles J. Taylor, Cambridge. P. O., carrier...
...sale cheap, polo pony, good weight carrier, believed to be sound, goes in harness. Capital hack, about seven years old, good mouth. For particulars address C. W. Y. 3 Mason St., Cambridge...