Word: clubmen
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...Donald G. Mitchell before a large audience in Livonia Hall. Mr. Mitchell has not lectured here since the winter of 1884-85, when he lectured on English literature to the University, and consequently this lecture attracted much attention. He took as his subject "Doctor Johnson and Some Old Clubmen of His Time," and followed the history of the Literary Club from the time of its foundation by the famous author and wit down to the present time. Mr. Mitchell's account of the doctor and his friends, Burke, Gibbons, Joshua Reynolds and Boswell, was exhaustive and critical, while his delightful...