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Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...
Further on I find a lament that so "few at the present day are the votaries of Grecian literature! Time was when "A man was frequently recommended by his skill in the aorists, or his profundity in the particles. But, now, we are stigmatized as unintelligible and pedantic, if we dare to introduce in conversation a Greek quotation, however rich in Attick aspiration, or Ionian melody...
...present college postman is a genial fellow, who is rapidly gaining favor by his satisfactory work and obliging manners...
...upon "American Manufactures and Agriculture" is upon a subject important to every one. Col. Walker has had the control of the census of 1880, which has been the most complete and comprehensive census ever taken of this country, and perhaps of any country in the world. He will probably present some facts and figures which have not yet appeared in the regular report. The lecture will be of especial interest to students of political economy...
From this small beginning her fame grew and grew, and she shortly became a celebrity in intellectual circles. She gave recitations more and more frequently, and at last had them every week. At these appeared as many of the lions as could be induced to be present. The rising young men and women were invited and were sometimes allowed to read one of their own productions. At one time the great attraction was a certain scientific defender of Orthodoxy, whose quotations were apt to be as fabulous as his support of prohibition principles was stormy and inaccurate. The blue-eyed...