Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Unitarian Review for January opens with a bright inaugural address by Dr. Emerton of Harvard...
...following scholarships have been awarded by the faculty: Graduates - H. M. Clark, F. B. Goddard, A. W. Roberts and J. N. Johnson. Freshman scholarships are awarded to Huddleston, Snyder. Frazer, La Monte, Lloyd, Gleason, Churchill, Washburn, Matthews, Bright and Bigelow...
...thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic journal, Life, of which the first number will appear next week, is composed almost wholly of bright young Harvard wits, who have found Boston a good training school but have discovered that New York henceforth is the ground for successful literary careers...
...Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican is inclined to doubt the success of Life, the proposed publication of several Harvard graduates. He says: "They are all bright and promising penmen; but yet they are amateurs, mere fledgings in journalism, and it will be interesting to observe what sort of a paper they will produce. They may invite the criticism that Langtry has received. One cannot easily become a star without some preliminary training. And journalism is no boys' play. These young men may discover this. If they escape it, they will not only be happy, but very lucky. Their success...
...weekly paper is to be started in New York, the first of the year, which will be called Life, and is to be run and contributed to by the bright set of young Harvard men who have distinguished themselves of late in the lightest literature, among them E. S. Martin, who wrote "Sly Ballades in Harvard China;" Robert Grant, author of the "Frivolous Girl;" Attwood, who wrote "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Student," and Wheelwright, author of "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge." Mr. Mitchell, who wrote the "Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert...