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PROFESSOR TOY'S reading will take place next Thursday evening...
...Theatricals take place to-night...
...studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with a prospect of having such study recognized as at least equal to the labors of students of the classics. We cannot help thinking that it is a grave mistake not to give to the English language and literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation of the common speech of two great Saxon nations. That speech is surely as worthy of attention as is Hebrew or Sanskrit; and its demands need not even interfere with the one end and aim of life, - a thorough knowledge...
...author of the successful essay is invited to read it in public at a time and place to be designated by the Executive Committee of the Finance Club...
...Latin department fall into error in considering apathy, in any direction, justifiable. Is there not danger of its awakening some day to the discomforting realization that, in popular favor, at least, Greek has outstripped it, and that, where it formerly held its head proudly in the first place, it must now be contented with a sorry second...