Word: boone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Advocate is an Irish dialect story, "A Village Paladin," by J. A. Graydon '01. After briefly picturing the town of Rosslea, on Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just...
...after all, is a large supply of ill-paid, unskilled work necessarily a boon to poor students. To me it seems that a man with enough ability to get into Harvard should be able to get work for which he will be paid more than twenty cents an hour...
...edition of Dante's complete works in a single volume, edited by the Rev. Dr. Moore, is soon to be issued from the Clarendon press, and will unquestionably afford a much better text of the prose works than any hitherto published. It will be a great boon to the student...
...power of the citizens of the "Greater Boston" of which Cambridge forms a part, to secure at a comparatively trifling cost a system of great natural parks, which as the community grows will prove a priceless boon to the people-a perpetual source of recreation and health...
...question as to the wisdom of the policy proposed. There can be no doubt as to its adoption when once the inertia of the public has been overcome: Intelligent people ought to see to it that this inertia does not prevent the prompt action necessary to secure this great boon at slight cost. Is it not a case in which Harvard men may fittingly express by their cooperation with the Commission-headed as it is by an honored graduate and benefactor of the University-their intelligent interest in the welfare of the community...