Word: bit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...liberal bequest to Dartmouth made by Julius Hallgarten, the banker of this city, has a bit of history contected with it, says the Concord (N. H.) Monitor. He was a Jew, and much wonder has been expressed that he should remember the New England College. A few years ago the Rev. Henry E. Parker, D. D., of Dartmouth, visited Bermuda, and while there met Mr. Hallgarten. The New Yorker was favorably impressed with his new acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration...
...letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays he drops a bit of autobiography full of interest. "The regular course of studies," he says, "the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we do call...
...other, you will have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddle on the page, one leg on the page below and two on the page you wish the book to open at. Never put in a soiled playing card, or a stained envelope, or a bit of dirty string or a piece of damp newspaper...
Pach's room photographer was detained by illness and could not leave N. Y. in time to meet his engagements on Monday last. He will be here next Tuesday A. M. I must have all sittings finished by March 1st. Readers of the HERALD-CRIMSON will please spread this bit of news among...
...Greek and some works printed by Caxton. Descending one reaches the cloisters built about the great quadrangle and generally considered the most beautiful portion of the college. The cloister-green with its close-cut grass sets off admirably the moss grown walls which surround it, and is a little bit of nature among the gray time-eaten buildings...