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Frank Preston Stearns. Cambridge Sketches
Cambridge Sketches
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PREFACE
THE EVERGREENS, JANUARY 4, 1905. THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. FRANCIS J. CHILD. LONGFELLOW. LOWELL. C. P. CRANCH. T. G. APPLETON. DOCTOR HOLMES. FRANK BIRD AND THE BIRD CLUB. SUMNER. CHEVALIER HOWE. THE WAR GOVERNOR. THE COLORED REGIMENTS. EMERSON'S TRIBUTE TO GEORGE L. STEARNS. ELIZUR WRIGHT. DR. W. T. G. MORTON. LEAVES FROM A ROMAN DIARY. CENTENNIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
THE CLOSE OF THE WAR
FRANCIS J. CHILD
LONGFELLOW
LOWELL
CRANCH
T. G. APPLETON
THE WHIP OF THE SKY
POMPEII
DOCTOR HOLMES
FRANK W. BIRD, AND THE BIRD CLUB
SUMNER
CHARLES SUMNER
CHEVALIER HOWE
THE WAR GOVERNOR
THE COLORED REGIMENTS
"JOHN A. ANDREW."
EMERSON'S TRIBUTE TO GEORGE L. STEARNS
ELIZUR WRIGHT
DR. W. T. G. MORTON
WILLIAM T. G. MORTON. INVENTOR AND REVEALER OF ANAESTHETIC INHALATION BY WHOM, PAIN IN SURGERY WAS ARRESTED AND ANNULLED BEFORE WHOM, IN ALL TIME, SURGERY WAS AGONY SINCE WHOM, SCIENCE HAS CONTROL OF PAIN
LEAVES FROM A ROMAN DIARY
MY LAST VISIT TO THE LONGFELLOWS
CENTENNIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
THE ALCOTT CENTENNIAL
THE EMERSON CENTENNIAL
EMERSON AND THE GREAT POETS
THE HAWTHORNE CENTENNIAL
HAWTHORNE AS ART CRITIC
HAWTHORNE AND HAMLET
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Frank Preston Stearns
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Fifty years ago it was the fashion at Harvard, as well as at other colleges, for professors to cultivate an austere dignity of manner for the purpose of preserving order and decorum in the recitation-room; but this frequently resulted in having the opposite effect and served as a temptation to the students to play practical jokes on their instructors. The habitual dryness of the college exercises in Latin, Greek, and mathematics became still more wearisome from the manner in which these were conducted. The youthful mind thirsting for knowledge found the road to it for the most part a dull and dreary pilgrimage.
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