Word: charming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...
...Mission Legend" is the best story in this number. As the writer states, it is written entirely without regard to style or effect, and this same unpretentiousness lends a great charm to it. The tale is that of the love of an Indian princess for a Mission Father with its tragic and unexpected...
...BUCKNELL. 11-1tFOUND.- On Cambridge street, near Memorial, a gold watch charm and seal. Owner may call at 736 Cambridge...
Dear as Old Cambridge and its surroundings are to every Harvard man, there has never been up to this time any picture which preserves at once the peculiar charm of Cambridge itself and a suggestion of Harvard life. At length, however, the long felt want has been met, and Klackner and Co. have just published a beautiful etching of a Cambridge scene by Wm. Goodrich Beal, whose work has been of late so well received. The etching must appeal to all Harvard men, past and present, and at this time particularly, perhaps, to those whose class day is so near...
...members of Yale's last year's crew will receive trophies in the form of a watch charm. The design of the trophies is two crossed tripods, with an oar perpendicular across the surface, an olive wreath about the bottom and a strand of rope on the top which will attach to the chain. On the upper part of the front will be the words, "Harvard vs. Yale, 20:10, record," and upon the back will be engraved the name and position of the men and the date of the race...