Word: addison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat by Harvard was the only one which the Dartmouth eleven sustained this fall. A. C. Gildersleeve has been elected captain of the Columbia foot ball team for next year. The authors to be read in English A, the last half year, are Addison, De Foe, Dryden, Pope and Swift...
...Addison Centre Burnham, Walcott...
...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...
There is an interesting article by John Addison Porter on "College Fraternities" in the September number of the Century. Among the illustrations is a very fair engraving of the new building of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...Ellory Anderson, Horatio Alger, Jr., George H. Adams, Charles C. Beaman, Addison Brown, ex Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, Joseph H. Choate, Henry H. Crocker, Jr., Paul Dana, Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Fairchild, Amos K. Fiske, Frederick G, Ireland, James T. Kilbreth, Charles F. McKim, Ogden Mills, Walter S. Mills, Peter B. Olney, Theodore Roosevelt, John O. Sargent, Edward Wetmore, president, Edward L. Parris, vice-president, and Nathaniel S. Smith, secretary, of the club. - New York Star...