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Everyone remembers the reply Polonius makes to Hamlet, who asked him if he did not at one time act in the University. Polonius not only admits it but is rather proud of it. "I did enact Julius Caesar, I was killed i' the capital." It is recorded that Queen Elizabeth attended amateur performances of the students at Oxford and at Cambridge, and was highly pleased with the endeavors of the striplings. At that time it was the custom, when any distinguished personage paid a visit to the Universities, to entertain him in royal style, and the representation of some...
...question was with whom she studied. There is an accurate perception of the relation of the teacher to his work expressed in this remark. The true teacher is a personal force that acts upon the pupil in a thousand ways not made manifest through the daily lessons.-[Amer. Queen...
...open question; who speaks the better English, the subjects of Queen Victoria, or the fellow citizens of President Arthur? still remains open for discussion. Perhaps it will never be determined, but for Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour...
...American Queen reprints a poem from a recent number of the Advocate...
...American Queen contains one of the recent Lampoon sketches by Mr. Santayana...