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Next Tuesday evening Prof. Bowen will give his concluding lecture on the study of the English Bible in its literary and secular aspect, and the due place of such study in a system of liberal education. These lectures have been largely attended, and have been also instructive and entertaining...
...under date of Nov. 4, writes : "Of the three instructors employed last year, after Mr. Riddle's resignation, only one, Mr. H. J. D. Jones, is reappointed this year. This indicates not that the college intends to make less of elocution than heretofore, but rather a preference for the system which Mr. Jones uses. There has been for some years a desire to check the tendency to train young men for theatrical declamation, and to give instead a foundation of development better calculated to make good public speakers at the bar, in the pulpit, or on the legislative floor. This...
...Advertiser. The writer begins with a sketch of its organization last March and its subsequent growth and success. Its plan is fully explained. Chances for failure are fully discussed and admitted to be great. Of special interest to our readers, however, is his explanation of the practical workings and systems of checks of its order system...
...subjects announced for the Graves prize essays for the senior class this year are : "The American Judiciary and its Dangers," "The Imperfections of the Jury System," "Modern Inventions as Related to Human Happiness," "The Influence of Physical Conditions on Moral Character," "Athens in the Time of Pericles," "The University of Oxford," "Author of 'Rob and His Friends,' " "John Quincy Adams," "Partisan History," "Howells as a Critic of American Life," "The Unrest of the Age as Expressed in its Poetry...
...poem by Edwin Arnold called "Pearls of the Faith; or, Islam's Rosary," will shortly appear. It deals with the life and religious system of Mahomet...