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...Roman...
...were almost unheard of by the undergraduate. Now Harvard swings to the opposite extreme, and changes all this; not only so, but there is prospect that the future Harvard graduate will know something of the use and abuse of his mother tongue. We have so long worshipped Greek and Roman statues in this country, that the average American has failed to perceive the living heroes of his own country. We judge this will be changed in the future. It will be a happy change...
...Roman...
...electrotypes of ancient coins, taken from originals in the British museum. They represent historical periods from 700 B. C. to 200 A. D. This is the second important gift of the class to the college, the first, in April last, consisting of 300 photographs of Greek and Roman sculpture, of the development of the Italian school of painting, and of selected architectural pieces of ancient ruins and buildings...
...well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does...