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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...born on the morning of the 25th day of November, 1859, in East Concord, N. H. In 1873 he was admitted to the Roxbury Latin School to pursue his studies preparatory to his admission to college, where, by his superb scholarship, his modest and considerate deportment, and his thorough goodness of heart, he won the esteem and affection of his teachers and fellow-students; his sharpest rivals, although at last outstripped by him, becoming his warmest friends...
...professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that I'm wasting my time. Far from it: I am writing a Cobden Prize Essay on, "Satan viewed as the originator of two-wheeled locomotion; or, several substantial reasons why I wish I had never been born...
TOMMIE JACKSON was in England for the first time in her life. Tommie was a young American girl, as her name indicates; she had been born in New York, the capital city of America. Her family, indeed, had some claim to respectability; her father, and also a distant cousin, had visited England in youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon...
Miss Jackson had come to England to visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
...hope of making more secure Harvard's position as the leading university in the country. The organization and continued success of the Harvard Union shows that it was a need recognized by a large number of the students. Besides this, about the usual number of smaller societies have been born, or have died, this year. In rowing and football our representatives did us credit, although they failed in winning the championship. In base ball the Nine gave spasmodic evidence of the possibility of a much better record, had it been guided more steadily. In general athletics Harvard was facile princeps...