Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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IN Mr. Moses King's little book entitled "Harvard and its Surroundings," which is a guide-book of a character worthy of the great University of New England, is the following unique advertisement, which, after an appropriate verse to the air of "Fair Harvard," proceeds as follows:-
Resolved, That while he reflected high credit on himself and his class by the excellence of his scholarship, he endeared himself still more to them by his upright character, his generous disposition, and his genial manners. While we grieve that he should be taken away so early, we are thankful...
The man must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading...
YOUR last issue contained an interesting and amusing communication relative to the stained-glass window in Memorial Hall. The author of that communication confesses his ignorance of the character which the design was intended to represent, although the name of Sir Philip Sidney was inscribed on the window, and mistakes...
THE Exonian is a weekly paper published at Exeter, and contains much news about that school. Perhaps when it is well started we may look for some articles of a literary character, which we miss in the first two numbers.