Word: essays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thanking Mrs. Obrien for her courtesy, the reporter withdrew, and picked his way out of the alley, pondering deeply on the hard fate of goodies in general, and Mrs. Obrien in particular, and mentally noting, in his odorous surrounding's, some excellent material for an essay on "The Cholera Fiend," illustrated a la the Boston Herald...
Among the contributions to the Science Almanac for 1885, we notice a paper on "Tornadoes," by Mr. W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, and an essay on "Temperature and its changes in the United States," from the same pen. Among the illustrations of the work are two prepared by Mr. O. C. Wendell, of the Harvard Observatory...
...following notice was recently read to the Amherst seniors at the opening exercise of the term: "Butler's Analogy at four P. M. -The Prize for the best essay on the Existence of God, has been increased to fifty dollars...
...that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest Demosthenes and a few other Greek writers...
...Princetonian says: "The Professors of English at Harvard now excuse editors of the college papers from essay writing This cannot fail to have a good effect on Harvard journalism. The editors will have more time for their journalistic work, and competition for editorial boards will be stronger. This ought to be tried in Princeton." We should like to inform the Princetonian, and also a hundred or so other college papers in which this delusive item has appeared, that the Harvard editor has as hard a grind in his English work as anyone else, and is not exempt at all from...