Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Steele who in connection with it, assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff. Addison detected the hand of Steele in one of the first issues and offered his services, contributing first in the eighteenth number. His appearance made a change in the character of the paper. Politics disappeared and the essay took its place. It must be remembered, however, that the success of the Tatler was entirely assured before Addison had any connection with it. Suddenly, the Tatler ceased to appear, owing probably to injudicious meddling with politics...
Miss Lucy Warren, of Boston University '95, has won the Old South essay prize of $40 and a membership in the Mass. Historical Society...
...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 of the philosopher of Concord...
...proceed until we had good primary schools; as these were bettered, the work of the extension became easier. The movement offers four different subjects: history, literature, (mostly English) economics and natural science. The general method of teaching can be divided into three elements: (1) lecture, (2) class work, (3) essay and examinations...
...Slaughter of Austen College, Texas, won the $100 prize awarded by Sherman University, St. Louis, for the best essay on "The Construction of the Nicaraguan Canal...