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Sprague's "Manual of Volapuk;" a new selection of Browning's "Lyrical Poems;" a set of Gibbon's "Roman Empire" reduced in price...
...Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history, politics-a literature not less but more extensive and various than Greek and Roman literatures themselves. This literature indisputably excites the same sort of emotions and exerts the same influence as classical literature. It elevates the mind, stimulates the imagination and forms the taste; in short, there is absolutely no good effect produced by the classical literature which is not also in some degree...
...award of the Bowdoin prizes for 1887.8 has been posted as follows: Group I. To Edison Leone Whitney, A. B., 1885, a prize of $100 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire;" Group II. No a ward has yet been made in this group. Group III, A. To Francis Demetrius Kalopothakes, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire." B. To John Henry William Walden, senior, a prize of $50 for a translation into Latin prose. Group IV. To Maxime Bocher, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation...
...historical sciences, or "diegetica," as they were called in the pedantic scheme of Judge Woodward, the framer of the act. The method of supplying the faculty was unique. A Scotch Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, was given six professors, in addition to the presidency; while Gabriel Richard, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territory, took the six remaining chairs. In 1821 this preliminary organization was repealed and a board of twenty-one trustees, including the Scotch parson and a Catholic bishop, was appointed by the Territorial legislature with full powers to organize the University. But the Territory had no ready money...