Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signed on the 2d of July, 1838, evidently appreciated the honor of being the "first visitor" to Harvard College, so that we can still read with pleasure that his name was Thomas, and that he came from near Dublin, Ireland. The details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something of the same spirit possessed the party of eight young ladies and gentlemen, who record that they were "locked in." The oblivion of youth heeded not the page's cry, "Library closed...
...laid, designedly a protective duty, but intended to be only temporary. This tariff was the most scientifically arranged of any of the tariffs of the country, being much superior in that respect to our present tariff. The highest duties were laid on luxuries; carriages, for instance, it is curious to notice, bore a duty of thirty per cent., showing how these vehicles were then regarded by the people. The tariff of 1816 had little popular sentiment behind it, but after this time the tariff acts were in great part the result of popular movement...
...curious paralellism to this expression occurs in the last Yale Courant, which cries out: "The day seems rapidly approaching when the HERALD and and the News shall lie down together, and the little Crimson shall lead them." ("Little" Crimson because of the recent article on "Yaleism...
...continued, a collection in which the Harvard Library, we believe, excels all other libraries in America, the private collection of Dr. Labbarton in New York, though not approaching it in quantity, being its only rival in quality. A bibliography by Justin Winsor of "Ptolemy's Geography" with many curious titles appears. But the most interesting portion of this number of the Bulletin undoubtedly is the catalogue of "The Carlyle Collection," by W. C. Lane. The number of volumes entered is not great, but they are all of rare interest from their connection with their former owner, many containing marginal notes...
...poem contains a very beautiful episode of the descent of Istar, the goddess of love, into hell, which is also preserved in other tablets. It is a curious fact that parts of several editions of the poem have been found which lead to the belief that there were at one time many editions. The only place where the poem can be found is in Sayce's edition of Smith's "Chaldaean Genesis," which contains about one-third of the poem...