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...recent discussion of the best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that...
...return to the discussion of style. Of the many circumstances which contribute to the formation of a style, reading is but one. Desultory reading, if care is not exercised, will almost invariably induce a looseness of handling in writing and a lack of distinct expression. A close study of the very first masters of English prose is, perhaps, the only means open to students who cannot afford to gain the cultivation offered by the composition courses. Even among standard authors a choice should be made. This is a point, however, which each student must exercise his individual taste. But upon...
...began by illustrating the internal mechanism of a flower. Every flower contains stamens and pistils, - the male and female organs of generation, - and an ovary or calyx in which the fruit or seed is generated. The, stamen is the pollen producing organ; this, when placed on the stigma and style of the pistil, excites the secretions of that body which make their way to the ovary to the undeveloped seeds within. The lecturer divided flowers into four groups: those self-fertilizing, and thost fertilized by wind, water, and animal life...
...should like to call the attention of the college at large to the lectures which Professor Hill is at present giving on "Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style." For this year Professor Hill is taking up a set of men different from those which have formerly been treated in the Rhetoric course. Thus far the lectures have been on writers of the last century, Dryden, Pope and Swift. So the course at present corresponds in a measure to English VII, which is omitted this year. We believe that many who are or will be unable to take English...
...SATURDAY.Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Course for freshmen. Special subject: Jonathan Swift, continued. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever...