Word: edward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article on Nicholas Boylston accompanying the Copley portrait is by Professor Barrett Wendell '77. Besides the brief history of the portrait, sketches are given of the five incumbents of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory founded by Nicholas Boylston, John Quincy Adams, Rev. Joseph McKean. Edward Tynel Channing, Francis J. Child and Adams Sherman Hill. Of Professor Hill Mr. Wendell says that he has established the study of Rhetoric and English which he found one of secondary importance, as one of the first academic rank...
...Tangent," by Edward H. James, is by all odds the cleverest story in the Monthly. Of it may be said as has been of Henry James's novels that "the characters lounge, and the plot proceeds out of their mouths." The interest in the story is all in the dialogue and in the subtle shades of feeling which are connoted with great nicety. The story has a peculiar charm in that the interest in it lingers after the last word has been read. Understanding as we do that "Tangent" was written some years ago, we can not help bewailing that...
Richard de Bury was born at Bury St. Edmunds in 1287. He graduated at Oxford and became tutor to the Prince of Wales, aferwards Edward III. When Edward came to the throne, Richard de Bury was consecrated Bishop of Durham and afterwards was made Lord Treasurer and Lord High Chancellor. In 1343 he went into retirement and began a work on his "Philobiblon," which he finished in 1345, three months before his death...
...Edward William Hamilton '96, of Schenectady, N. Y., prepared for Princeton at Chapius Collegiate School in New York City. In sophomore year he won first prize in oratory in Whig Hall, and in junior year he won second prize in general inter-class debate in hall and first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...
...Edward Holmes McVey is a senior in the Law School and comes from Des Moines Iowa. Last year he represented the Yale Kent Club in a debate with the Yale Union. Edward Hicks Hume '97 will act as alternate speaker. He had only limited experience in debating before entering college and has obtained practice only in the contests in the Yale Union...