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...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Peck...
...contrast is well set off by Mrs. Lamb in her chapter on the incidents in connection with Lafayette's visit. "Stephen A. Douglass and the Free Soilers" is the title of a brief but very enjoyable sketch of the political squabbles during the years 1850-61. Mr. Chas. H. Peck, in his admirable exposition of Aaron Burr's political career, has very ably supported the political role played by Burr in opposition to his rival Hamilton until he comes to the darkest page of Burr's life-the attempt to dismember the Union. It may be well, however, for those...
...contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch is by Walstein Root, on the "Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794," the germ of Hamilton College. The fourth article in this superb number is a study by Charles H. Peck of the public life and character of "Aaron Burr," in which he aims to substitute natural explanations for the acts and misfortunes of his extraordinary subject. Then follows, from G. Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, "An Interesting Dialogue in 1676, between Bacon, 'the rebel,' and John Goode of Whitby...
...programme of courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages offered for the present year. From this we learn that the most complete department of its kind in America exists at Columbia, and that, under the inspiring leadership of so cultured a scholar as Dr. H. T. Peck, no fewer than nineteen courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages are announced. This is a remarkable showing, and when considered in connection with the courses of Professors Bloomfield and Haupt at Baltimore, Whitney at New Haven, and Lyon, Toy and Lanman at Cambridge, proves that a great impetus has been given...
...contract system defeats the real purpose of penal institutions, the repression of crime by the reformation of the criminals.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 36, 37, 88 et. seq., 134-136; Report of the United States Labor Bureau (1886); Report of Charles F. Peck, New York commissioner, pp. 312; also...