Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...
...mind to that of our college man who sits up all night with nothing to cheer him but a cup of cold coffee and a wet cloth around his aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump up and express his doubts as to the truth of a certain assertion. A dispute then ensues between...
...feature of the evening's entertainment was the reading of the Harvard Idea, by Mr. F. M. Hollister, '65. The Idea makes its appearance annually. Its columns are devoted to art, literature, science, and to the correspondence of eminent personages in regard to the University, its august faculty, and all else connected with the institution. "Ideas" are solicited from everyone of note. If the writer's memory serves him, there was a communication from the Mikado of Japan, in which he berated soundly the methods of teaching his melodious language, now in use at Harvard. He regarded, however, the large...
...five hundredth anniversary of Heidelberg University, will occur the second week of August this year...
Will contain serial stories by Charles Egbert Craddock, author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," "In the Tennessee Mountains," etc. Henry James, "The Princess Casomassina" will continue until August, 1886. William H. Bishop, author of "The House of a Merchant Prince." James Russell Lowell will write for the Atlantic Monthly for 1886. John Fiske will contribute papers on United States History. Philip Gilbert Hamerton will furnish a series of articles comparing French and English people, character, opinions, customs, etc. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will contribute some short stories...