Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play is a musical comedy in two acts and a prologue, and the scene is laid in the Plymouth Colony in Pilgrim times. The plot is based on the adventures of two young Americans, John Beacon Winton, of Boston, and James McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked...
...order given below. Individually, every member is experienced, having been in at least one race at New London; taken as a whole the men pull well together. The crew has been twice down to the basin; yesterday it continued in one long stretch past Harvard Bridge almost to Beacon street. Richardson, Severance, and Fish are occupying the same seats they filled last year. Lunt, however, has gone to four and Faulkner has been shifted from three to bow. Morgan, now at three, rowed against Yale and Cambridge in 1906, but was a substitute last year. Consequently there are only...
...Stefansson, formerly an assistant in the department of anthropology, will give an illustrated lecture on "Winter Life of the Eskimo" at the meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club, this evening at 8 o'clock at the University Club, 270 Beacon street, Boston...
...pretty much all of the natural world; under Professor Norton, of the human." And perhaps Mr. Bryce's words best sum up what we all feel and what these writers in different ways have fittingly expressed: "His clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround us. Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from...
...office, the results of which will be published for the information of the voters. The association is desirous of securing as many volunteers as possible for this work, and will hold a meeting of all such men this evening at 8 o'clock at the Boston City Club, 11 Beacon street, Boston, near the State House, at which time the work will be fully discussed and explained. All who are interested are urged to attend this meeting, and if there are any who are unable to do so, if they will send their names to me I shall be glad...