Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stillman '95 Sheff., of Elizabeth, N. J., centre. Played three years at St. Paul's School, rowed two years at that school. Member of Yale Mott Haven Team for hammer and shot. Played on his freshman eleven, and centre on the 'varsity last year, Age 20, height 6 ft. 2 in., weight...
...acknowledge the receipt from the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of "Donald Marcy" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and "Sally Dows and Other Stories" by Bret Harte...
...happens fiction is not otherwise represented in this number unless one includes Elizabeth Bellamy's clever sketch of negro life, called "Mom Cely's Wonderful Luck." Edward Everett Hale's first paper on "My College Days" is written with much brightness, and gives an interesting account of Harvard College in the days of President Quincy, abounding in reminiscences of well-known students and professors. Another paper of reminiscent interest is a charming essay by Mr. H. C. Merwin, "On Growing Old;" while Dr. William Henry Furness offers some "Random Reminiscences of Emerson," which throw new light on the personality...
...time of Elizabeth, when the passion for the drama was very marked that the Scotchman Ben Jonson came forward. After his father's death his mother married again. This stepfather sent Jonson to Westminster school, where he studied to great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life...
...medical department is soon to be added to the courses now offered at the Johns Hopkins University. Miss Mary Elizabeth Gerrett of Baltimore, who has before given large sums of money to the university, has given sufficient money to start the proposed medical school for women in which they will have the same chance for study as men. Miss Garrett in giving this endowment stipulates that this department shall be an integral part of the university. Four years will be devoted to the course; the instruction given will require a knowledge of the preliminary medical course which is now prescribed...