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...Harvard University Catalogue is now announced for the 15th of the present month, though it is possible that delay may still occur. It will be a volume of about 330 pages, but otherwise the edition in paper will be similar in appearance to the annual Catalogue heretofore published. The Catalogue of the Medical School has been reprinted from the Catalogue of the University, and can be found at Sever...
...young, and which first made him a reputation; "My Novel," "The Caxtons," "What will he do with it?" and "The Last of the Barons." "Eugene Aram," a book severely censured at the time of its publication because the characters were "taken from Newgate," is well worth the perusal, and, though it represents an uncommon phase of character, it has nothing peculiarly extravagant or unnatural about it, as has been alleged...
Bulwer was, undoubtedly, a good classical scholar, though he has bequeathed us but little in that department. Leaving the beaten track followed by most Englishmen of position and education, and foregoing the pleasure of rendering into English the works of Homer, he has been content with a translation of Horace's Odes and Epodes. The translation is, as a rule, very literal, and the renderings excellent; the beauty of the work has been marred by an attempt to preserve in the English all the original metres of the Latin...
There are those in college whose opinion we respect, though it is likely to be unfavorable to us. They are interested in important social and literary questions, and would gladly discuss them in a college paper or magazine. It is possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit. is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly...
...Medical Schools, particularly, are insufficiently endowed, and depend somewhat for their maintenance on the number of their students. Any attempt to raise the standard of the Schools diminishes the number of students; and though the class of men who are sent or kept away by this cause, as students, can well be spared, financially their loss is a serious...