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...Professor, the Autocrat and the Poet have been interchangeable, and his latest published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill. It is no less full of delight and instruction for the general reader than of historic value to the professional student. It is pleasant to know that Dr. Holmes resigns only that he may devote himself more exclusively to literary occupations. The professor who has taught the Medical School withdraws in favor of the professor who has charmed all the world. - [Harpers' Weekly...
...seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand five hundred. There are not only the Greek and Latin authors in this collection, but nearly every production of every commentator upon certain classical authors. Professor Gildersleeve has been an omniverous reader ever since he was a boy of twelve. He showed me some of his note-books that he had written out while at Princeton. Whenever he finished reading a book he wrote in his note-book his opinions of the work, and made comparisons between it and other works. His favorite...
Monroe's Sixth Reader is the text book used in Elocution by the seniors and juniors. The first part of the hour is devoted to exercises which give easy action to the muscles employed in speaking, and also to obtaining pure tones and improving the quality of the voice. The latter part of the hour is given to reading selections from Monroe's Sixth Reader...
...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...
...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...