Word: fall
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice of the peace, appropriately disguised as a fool, comes to the fair on the scent for "enormities" which he immediately begins to discover and try to correct; but he ends by getting himself well beaten on the suspicion of having...
During the fall and winter of the current academic year President Eliot has spoken before economic and citizens' clubs in various cities of Massachusetts on "Municipal Government by Commission." Among others he has filled the following engagements: October 25, Salem Board of Trade, Salem; October 31, Economic Club, Worcester; November 13, Men's Club of Portland Street Baptist Church, Haverhill; December 2, Economic Club, Springfield; December 10, Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell; January 30, Citizens' Association of Quincy; February 5, Lynn Twentieth Century Club, Lynn; and February 27, Parish Club, Cambridge. He also addressed the members of the Harvard Union...
...Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or some similar subject. President Eliot is the second incumbent of the lectureship. The first was the Right Honorable James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, who, in the fall of 1904, delivered a series of five lectures on "The Study of Popular Government." The lectures this year will probably be given...
...University Musical Clubs will give a concert in Whitney Hall, Brookline, Friday, the proceeds of which will be used to assist E. C., Carter '00, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in India. A concert for the same purpose was given last fall, and has been given annually for the past few years...
Mayor Hibbard has been interested in politics for many years, having been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, chairman of the Republican State Committee, and city postmaster of Boston. Last fall he won an exciting victory as Republican candidate for mayor of Boston, and has since made effective changes in the city administration...