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...delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share his enjoyment with others. Dearly as he loves the choice volumes ranged in neat order on his book-shelves, they are but half-used while they are not shared. The bookish man may be selfish, but it is the exception only ; the rule...
...University next week. The play is to be performed nearly every night up to and including Friday, and so great has been the demand for seats that the authorities have had to arrange for an extra morning performance on Wednesday, in addition to the one previously announced for Saturday. Special trains are to be run to accommodate the crowds of visitors, and Cambridge is expected to present as lively a scene as is witnessed there at the annual commencement. Indeed, the interest excited by the promised representation of the "Birds" seems greatly to exceed that manifested when Sophocles' "Ajax...
...FRIDAY.The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject: Early Hebrew History and the Assyrian Monuments. Professor Lyon. Upper Divinity Hall...
...Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament. Special subject; Genesis and the Monuments. Professor Lyon in Upper Divinity today at twelve...
...will carefully examine Canon Farrar's remarks as a whole you will see that they are not directed against "classical education" in a broad and liberal point of view, but against the special system, with which he was familiar as an assistant master at Harrow from 1855 to (I think) 1871, chiefly under the mastership of Dr. Vaughan. That system, though much improved by Dr. Vaughan, still preserved and preserves the old traditions and arrangements of the school which made a very full and finished classical education the one great object, to which all other branches were made subordinate...