Word: scott
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Senior year the course is the De Senectute, Virgil's Bucolics, a book of Herodotus, and one of the Iliad, with geometry and logarithms. Besides these branches Shakespeare, Scott, and Goldsmith are studied to a certain extent in this year, and some time is devoted to French, physics, and modern and physical geography...
...most of our eminent lawyers are noted for their powers of recollection. The desirability of this faculty is, indeed, so evident, that it hardly requires illustration from the cases of physicians, preachers, and literary men. I cannot forbear, however, a passing allusion to the case of Sir Walter Scott, whose wonderful and almost unbounded memory, more than any other quality, was the foundation of his fame and success as an historical novelist...