Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The sad news of the death of Edward Fox Fessenden on last Friday evening, March 11, has cast a sudden and deep gloom upon the whole senior class. Mr. Fessenden had been in poor health for some weeks, and on Sunday was in great suffering. On Tuesday pneumonia manifested itself...
It is one of the mysteries of fate that great characters in history are often known to the world as the direct opposites of that which they really were. The misrepresentations of contemporaries, or the imaginations of succeeding ages, give such a distorted picture as to make impossible any just...
The Greeks were the one race which developed athletic games, and this fact distinguishes them from other races. During the period of transition in art the games were chiefly developed. Before, they had been part of the religious rites of certain ceremonial, but from 530 B.C., they assumed a distinct...
A crowded chapel awaited the service in Appleton Chapel last evening, at which Prof. Harris, - whose name has been brought prominently forward in the recent Andover trial, - was to preach. The service opened with a short prayer, which was followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long...
President Everett did not fancy the proceedings of this boisterous club of tars and in 1851 the last excursion was made in the bay. Following is the organization of the navy in the year before its dissolution: "At present the Navy Club is organized after the parts for the last...