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...several times, and, being somewhat of an operator, had even made out to read parts of the message, but could make no sense of them, as they were evidently in cypher. Consequently he was beginning to have visions of infernal machines and was scraping together in his memory the various Irish agitators of whom he had expressed an unfavorable opinion, for the purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when...
...Lowell Citizen notes that along about this time the woods in the vicinity of the various institutions of learning resound with such phrases as: "Far back in the palmy days of the Roman empire, as Gibbons tells us" - "I invite you to go back with me in thought" - "And now, classmates" - etc. Commencement time is coming...
...latter in the afternoon. As before remarked, fees at first supported the lecturers, but gradually lectureships were founded by the cities, and the governments gradually gained their present power over the universities, and professors were no longer chosen by the students. The age of the students was various, but they were usually older than at the present day, it being reported that men of fifty years of age turned their steps towards Bologna upon the news of a new study, as Roman...
...went to Germany, where he studied for several years before returning to take his own course at Harvard. His university and theological course completed he entered at once with all zest into the work of the Unitarian ministry, and during the thirty years ensuing gave to it, in various cities of New England, the best vigor of his life. . . . In 1857 he was made Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Harvard University, and held this chair until his transfer to that of German Literature in 1872. This was the most active part of his literary life, during which he wrote many...
...serve the purpose of the printed descriptions of courses offered by some of the departments, Prof. Palmer will devote the next two hours in Philosophy 1 to a description of the various courses offered in philosophy, as well as to advice as to what courses to take and what method to pursue in a course of private reading with criticisms on the principal text books and authors in philosophy...