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America should rejoice to know that so many of her students are conditioned in Arithmetic and Modern Geography, and so few comparatively in the Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to...
Of the old authors, Aristophanes is my favorite; his "Clouds," for instance. I think if I were to attend college for fifty years, and it were possible, I would annually elect this consummate work of Grecian literature. Its chastity of style, the spirit in which it was written, cannot fail...
And so I love the Classics. I venerate the ancients, because their knowledge of nature was superior to ours, their science more advanced, their ideas of the human relations broader and purer, and, finally, because my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather venerated and studied them before me. "With a loud...
Though the score stands three to one against our nine, they have every reason to be proud of their record. The game was certainly the best-played one of the season. Where all did so well, it is difficult to particularize; but Kent and Hodges deserve especial praise for their...
The Circus.WE visited the Modern Hippodrome, generally known as Lent's Circus, on Tuesday night. From the private box politely furnished us by Mr. Lent we viewed with wonder the performances of dogs, horses, men, and women, and with melancholy mortification the proceedings of some of our younger fellow-students...