Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author of the letter to the Advocate does not answer his question in objection No. 2, - "Did '83 gain more renown by winning the class race than by their victory over Columbia?" If an '83 man were to answer, he might say, "No, we did not;" but the spectators of any actions are the ones to judge in which most renown was gained, and the general opinion among upper class men is that '83 gained most by winning the class races. If the question were to be asked of men outside of Harvard, they would agree with '83, as they...
...last two readings in Mr. Riddle's course at Lyceum Hall will be given on the 9th and on the 16th of November. At the first, besides selections from "Romeo and Juliet," he will read "Tot Plummer's First Assembly," a very amusing account, by the author of the "Frivolous Girl," of the experiences of a Sophomore at his first Harvard Assembly. At the second, he will read selections from "Macbeth," and "The Sewing School for Scandal," written by one of the authors of "Rollo...
...fail to see why a man could not take English 2 a second time, as well as a Greek course in which different plays by the same author are read. The Clouds of Aristophanes is read in Greek 2, and the Frogs in Greek 9. Why not prevent a man from taking the latter after the former...
...became the second wife of Isaac Goose. Goose, at that time, possessed ten children. His second wife bore him six, and, in view of this accumulated progeny, it has been supposed that "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" grew out of its author's experience. Such dim hints form our chief knowledge of the life of Mother Goose, as, indeed, often happens in the case of writers who are absorbed in their work...
Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...