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THERE has been recently established in our University a course of much interest to the student at large, and especially to the student of languages; I mean the course in Romance Philology. It presents the double advantage of being attractive in itself, and under the direction of a competent and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INTERESTING ELECTIVE. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

Philology is the study of a lifetime, constantly developing and discovering new fields for work. The foundations on which it is built lie far back in the mist of ages, and speculation, to a certain extent, is the guide to our results. It is therefore interesting to find among our...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INTERESTING ELECTIVE. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

The Romance offers us this feature, and is therefore of no little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INTERESTING ELECTIVE. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

5. We find this expression strangely coincident with our own cant phrase, "know a thing or two." Also of. CARLYLE, passim.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRILOGIA HARVARDINI. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

A GRADUATEDEAR SIR, - I have heard of but a single instance, among the young women at our University, of inability to keep well up with the class. As a rule, the young women average about ten per cent better on the examination papers than do the young men.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN STUDENTS AT CORNELL. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »