Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.-The opening chapters of three serial stories' Charles Egbert Craddock's "Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," Sarah Orne Jewett's "A March Island," and Mrs. Oliphant's "A Country Gentleman," render the Atlantic for January a remarkable number. Oliver Wendell Holmes begins a series of papers...
A circular description of the "Society of Political Education" has come into our hands. As the society is of a character to interest Harvard men, we clip the following extract from the circular. The society was established as long a go as 1880, but its existence is not generally known...
The character of the books which the society recommends to its members, can be seen from the following list recommended for the year 1881:
Although not very instructive, it is certainly amusing to note the reckless newspaper fights in which our Yale and Princeton exchanges are now engaged. The charges and countercharges which are made are truly wonderful, especially when we consider that the people of these United States are accustomed to base at...
The lecture which will be given this evening by Edmund W. Gosse, Esq., of Cambridge University, England, deserves to be attended by a large and appreciative audience. The students of Harvard seldom have the opportunity of hearing the noted lecturers who come to this country; but when such opportunity is...