A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, for the Academic Year ...

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Page 235 - Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L' Allegro, and II Penseroso ; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addis on. In 19o6, 19o7, 19o8: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L' Allegro, and // Penseroso ; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America ; Macaulay's Essay on Milton, and Life of Johnson.
Page 92 - Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar ; the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner ; Scott's Ivanhoe ; Carlyle's Essay on Burns ; Tennyson's Princess ; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal ; George Eliot's Silas Marner.
Page 167 - Shaw's proposal: — 1. That a School of Botany be established as a special department of Washington University, to be known as the Henry Shaw School of Botany. 2. That a professorship of Botany be therein established, to be known as the Engelmann Professorship. 3. That Professor Win.
Page 94 - The inflections; the simpler rules for composition and derivation of words; syntax of cases and the verbs; structure of sentences in general, with particular regard to relative and conditional sentences, indirect discourse, and the subjunctive.
Page 235 - Shakespeare's Macbeth; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L' Allegro and II Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, or Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration; Macaulay's Life of Johnson or Carlyle's Essay on Burns.
Page 92 - The Merchant of Venice ; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Irving's Life of Goldsmith; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake; Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner.
Page 95 - The examination in grammar and prose composition will be based on the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis. B.
Page 173 - The objects of said department shall be: Instruction in the fine arts; the collection and exhibition of pictures, statuary, and other works of art, and of whatever else may be of artistic interest and appropriate for a public gallery or art museum; and, in general, the promotion by all proper means of aesthetic or artistic education.
Page 24 - Later in the year a building was erected for the chemical laboratory. In the next year the organization of the College was completed, and the first College degrees were granted in 1862. The east wing of the main building on Washington Avenue and Seventeenth Street, of which the academic building formed the south wing, was erected in 1858 and used for College classes ; the west wing was added in 1871 and devoted to the uses of the Polytechnic School. In the meantime the University had been growing,...
Page 96 - ... to 175 duodecimo pages of graduated texts, with constant practice in translating into French easy variations of the sentences read (the teacher giving the English ) , and in reproducing from memory sentences previously read ; (5) writing French from dictation.

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