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James Pycroft. SOPHOCLES LECTURE . 97 you will learn them in a way most improving to your mind ; for there they are invested with a peculiar interest , and excite an original spirit of inquiry unknown in private study . In the one case ...
James Pycroft. SOPHOCLES LECTURE . 97 you will learn them in a way most improving to your mind ; for there they are invested with a peculiar interest , and excite an original spirit of inquiry unknown in private study . In the one case ...
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... gave at once the zest and the occasion for it all , though I grant that these free discursive pastimes of college - life have a ' soul of goodness ' in them greater than any lec- tures , and not the less improving because we know F 5.
... gave at once the zest and the occasion for it all , though I grant that these free discursive pastimes of college - life have a ' soul of goodness ' in them greater than any lec- tures , and not the less improving because we know F 5.
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James Pycroft. tures , and not the less improving because we know not of it . " If you want to know the forms and plan of a lec- ture , it is this : we enter the room and take our seats at the given hour . Then we translate in turn each ...
James Pycroft. tures , and not the less improving because we know not of it . " If you want to know the forms and plan of a lec- ture , it is this : we enter the room and take our seats at the given hour . Then we translate in turn each ...
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... . This he continued through the Iliad . Probably the tutor thought this task more improving than the one omitted . " Another Cambridge friend told me that of " CONFINED TO GATES . " " 161 Trinity was 160 THE COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE .
... . This he continued through the Iliad . Probably the tutor thought this task more improving than the one omitted . " Another Cambridge friend told me that of " CONFINED TO GATES . " " 161 Trinity was 160 THE COLLEGIAN'S GUIDE .
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... improving to the mind ; and though it may waste a little by keeping , still it will not entirely evaporate as soon as the examination is over ; but the professor of the art of cramming rea- sons as follows : " The object of the men who ...
... improving to the mind ; and though it may waste a little by keeping , still it will not entirely evaporate as soon as the examination is over ; but the professor of the art of cramming rea- sons as follows : " The object of the men who ...
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