Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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As Mr. Chauncey Depew lately said in one of his witty speeches after a college Alumni dinner, with such an array of studies as Harvard offers the students the elective system becomes a necessity unless the students are to be worked 438 hours a week. The only absolute prescription is...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down...
A new comedy-drama, "The Advocate," by a young American actor, Mr. Charles Lander, was produced at the Kilburn Town Hall on Friday evening. It is taken from the French, is dated 1817, and is really a duel of words and stratagems between the advocate, Malesherbes, and the Baroness De...
In working for the study of English, Professor Hill has fought successfully distressing sickness, indifference in the preparatory schools, disorder among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly...
to cut a tree down. But in the course of the chopping a portion of the upper tree falls on his head with such extraordinary force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not...