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...Goodale, '85, for the negative. The vote of the house on the merits of the question was affirmative 6, negative 35; on the merits of the debate of the principal disputants affirmative 20, negative 31. When the debate had been thrown open to the house, Mr. McIntosh spoke for the affirmative; Messrs. Bowen, Darling and others for the negative. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood affirmative 1, negative...
...letters, like the late Dr. Holland, who have a natural gift of style without Greek culture, it is nevertheless true that, to master English idiom, the average man must be more or less familiar with Greek. Profs. Young, Cameron, Orrks, Winans, Libbey, Hunt and West also spoke...
...Saturday evening, Mr. Samuel Norris Jr. of the class of '83, and now a member of the law school, delivered at Bristol, R. I., his native place ,a most instructive address on "Martm Luther and the times which preceded and followed him." The town Hall in Which Mr. Norris spoke was well filled by an appreciative audience despite the disagreeable weather...
...paragraph in a Western newspaper led to the incorrect statement that Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, had expressed the opinion in a public address that the study of Greek and Latin is practically useless. The fact proves to be that he spoke only in condemnation of the compulsory study of Greek in our American colleges...
...Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other of our worthies, We recall the fervor of his utterance here when he spoke, as he has published in print, to effect that he would give a guinea for each word, or a hundred dollars for each of five lines of information about John Harvard in England. There is necessarily much that is unsatisfactory in a wholly idealized representation by art of an historical...