Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is to be noted, however, that if there was always plenty of talent at Eton, able editors were as scarce there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness...
Gladstone was always merry enough; but he was not one of those boys who can be called "merry fellows." Whilst he edited his magazine he used to stupefy his fags by his prodigious capacity for work. Most of his writings were calm in language, and breathe a conservative spirit; they...
The Harvard Club of Chicago held its annual meeting and banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, last Friday evening. Over one hundred guests were present. Among those present were Professors Palmer, F. G. Peabody and McVane, besides distinguished graduates from most of the classes since 1827. Among recent graduates...
To Edward Wheeler Frost, junior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation entitled "Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette compared as to Character and Career."
A genuine "no popery riot" has occurred at Oxford. The facts are these: On a Saturday night near the end of February, a dignified emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is...