Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators to perfection. In the more solid portions of his lecture, Mr. Dougherty...
...writer himself cannot testify to the truth of this axiom, but on the strength of the testimony of many friends he asserts a strong belief in the same. The same reasons, however, that make "All's well that ends Wellesley," a self-evident fact, lend a similar charm to a place not many miles from Wellesley, a place which receives more or less attention from Harvard undergraduates, but which has been rather overshadowed in the columns of the CRIMSON by its more famous rival...
FOUND.- Monday evening, Feb. 9, in Sever Hall, a small gold watch-charm. The owner can have the same by applying to 410 Harvard Street...
FOUND.-Monday evening, Feb. 9, in Sever Hall, a small gold watch-charm. The owner can have the same by applying to 410 Harvard Street...
...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 (to be continued throughout the year) entitled "A New Portfolio," and the first number is full of the old time charm, wit, pathos, and other delightful qualities of the genial Autocrat. Articles of literary interest are a thoughtful study of "Childhood in Greek and Roman Literature," by Horace E. Scudder; and a paper by Richard Grant White on "The H Malady in England." Two pictures of New England life-"A Salem...