Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Alexander Johnston has just issued a series of "American Orations, "similar to the already published edition of "British Orations." It includes orations representing each eriod in our history from the colonial to the present, and includes such modern orators as Beecher, Schurz, Pendleton, Sherman, and Garfield...
...sculptor, Thomas Brock, A, R. A. No greater expression of the high esteem with which the English people regard the memory of Longfellow could be shown than the placing of this bust in the Poets' Corner, he being the only person thus honored who was not a British-born subject...
...class of '75 of the college of the City of New York has presented to the college a collection of 375 electrotypes of ancient coins, taken from originals in the British museum. They represent historical periods from 700 B. C. to 200 A. D. This is the second important gift of the class to the college, the first, in April last, consisting of 300 photographs of Greek and Roman sculpture, of the development of the Italian school of painting, and of selected architectural pieces of ancient ruins and buildings...
...thought probable that Edmund Gosse, the British essayist and poet, will lecture in New Haven sometime this month...
Gentlemen-the executive committee of the Longfellow Memorial Fund have much pleasure in offering to the president and fellows of Harvard College a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, executed by Thomas Brock, A. R. A., and recently placed amongst the memorials of British worthies in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey...