Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Before such audiences John Dryden made his fame or, perhaps better won his popularity. His plays at first very poor, gradually grew better until finally he captured the London court, and henceforth his position was secure. Dryden was hardly a man of lofty ideals, and he much preferred the popularity of the moment and its substantial rewards than any amount of posthumous glory...
...Howells contributes another of his delightful little farces, entitled "The Unexpected Guests" and the name of Richard Harding Davis once more appears after a short story. And here again we meet a friend, Mr. Hefty Burke - of masquerade ball fame - but although the story is undeniably interesting and entertaining, it is not to be compared with Mr. Davis's best work. It is an impossible tale and after finishing it, one gets back and says "It's good but it's absurd...
Thomas Stevens, of bicycling fame, has the first chapter of "Across Europe in a Petroleum Launch. From the German Ocean to the Black Sea." It is the description of a trip in a naptha lauch, up the Elbe, across to the Danube, and down to the Black Sea. The syle is very bright and vivid, and the article makes delightful reading, like nearly all of Stevens' work...
Professor Lovering was one of the men to whom Harvard must attribute much of her high fame gained in the middle years of the present century. Those were the years in which the beginnings of true scientific investigation were being made in America. To strengthen these first feeble efforts Professor Lovering brought all the powers of a far-reaching mind and a noble zeal. In this, his work, he brought strongly to the front the name of Harvard which he helped to identify with all that was best in educational and scientific advance in this country...
...Thoughts Suggested by Lowell's 'Cambridge Thirty Years Ago' " quotes some of Lowell's thoughts on old Cambridge and answers his complaint "that the picturesque old characters have disappeared" by asking if Old John, Billy the postman, Mrs. Belcher, and Mr. Foster are not filling the same niches of fame today that Lewis, and other beloved old worthies did in Lowell's days...