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...feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever he was, he tarried with us but a little while. It was said that he had been "caved in" by a strong...
HONORARY DEGREES.LL. D., Rutherford B. Hayes, Charles Devens, and Thomas F. Bayard; A. M., Thomas J. Appleton and Horace H. Furness; D. D., Phillips Brooks...
General Devens then called upon Senator Bayard, of Delaware, to respond to the toast proposed by Mr. Schurz, "The scholar in politics...
...Senator Bayard said that the man who made the phrase 'Pleasures that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree...
...Resident Professor Bayard Taylor has begun his lectures on Early German Literature. The lectures are free to the public...