Word: descent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...holders of John Harvard Scholarships be grouped in the University Catalogue and elsewhere with the most distinguished holders of other scholarships. Holders of less important scholarships are to appear in another list; and holders of scholarships given on special claims, such as residence in a particular town or descent from a particular person, will constitute a third list...
...slight acquaintance which most persons, even most cultivated persons, have with the life and writings of Sir Thomas Browne, Mr. Copeland began his lecture with an unusually full comment upon the life and surroundings of this writer. Browne, although the son of a London merchant, was of gentle descent on both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic. After something like...
Vicksburg was especially strong, the Gibralter of America. Impregnable on the river front, with its steep descent, it was protected by a maze of swamps on the north and rough coutry everywhere else. The strong outposts, Haines's Bluff, and Grand Gulf, above and below well guarded its flanks...
Messrs. Ginn and Co. have recently published a work by Greenough White entitled the philosophy of English Literature. The author has treated the evolution of English literature from the Middle Ages in a satisfactory manner. He clearly traces the descent of modern literary poems from the early Anglo-Saxon writings. The Arthurian tales are discussed at length. The work is of incalculable value to a student of our literature and should be included in every library...
...world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...