Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...From this beginning in the Men of Letters Series, Mr. Gosse betook himself to editing the works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among...
...having the shape of a large loaded cartridge, standing of course on its flat end. This is an interesting piece of antiquity. It was originally used by a miller, I believe; but when the revolution broke out, stores of powder were put there and were doubtless plundered by the British on their way to Lexington and Concord. We enter the old structure and see what an autograph album its interior has become. We immediately think of the quotation, "Fool's names," etc., but on finding the initials perhaps of our best friends or of some other great college...
...South America in "Over the Andes," and another paper is added to the series on "The Lakes of Upper Italy." A sketch by Francis Coppee, and an article by Lathrop on "Combination Novels," are interesting reading. In addition to this there are a valuable considerations of "Canada and the British Connection," by Edward Stanwood, and a paper on birds and bird life. The poetry, and the department of the Contributors' Club, are fully up to the standard...
...impression of the grandeur of the Harvard group of buildings died away in our freshman year. Still as we take our "casual glance," it might be well to remember that Wadsworth was once Washington's headquarters [hoc verumest], and that while he was there the shells from the British forts fell so dangerously near, that a removal of the General's quarters, further out to the old Longfellow house on Brattle street was made necessary; also that Massachusetts, as well as the old church opposite, was used in revolutionary times for quartering American troops. We pass up Brattle street...
...besides being the first American college planned by British Colonists, (it was in fact the first planned by British Colonists in any part of the world), it was the first to receive a Royal Charter, while in its actual establishment it yields to Harvard alone...