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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
essay on rhinosophy was given by Fanny Fern (Mrs. Parton), which was illustrated on the blackboard by this equation, written slowly by Mrs. Howe and read impressively:-- Nose + nose + nose = proboscis Nose — nose — nose = snub. She also sang a song occasionally, and once called up a class for recitations from Mother Goose in six different languages; Professor Goodwin beginning with a Greek version of The man in the Moon, and another Harvard man (now Dr. Gorham Bacon) following up with Heu! iter didilum Felis cum fidulum Vacca transiluit lunam. Caniculus ridet Quum talem videt Et dish ambulavit cum spoonam. The question being asked by Mrs. Howe whether this last line was in strict accordance with grammar, the scholar gave the following rule: The conditions of grammar should always give way to exigencies of rhyme. In conclusion, two young girls, Annie Bigelow and Mariana Mott, were called forward to receive graduate degrees for law and medicine; the former's announcement comin