Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management, through the athletic committee, has obtained permission to call all Wednesday games at 3.30 instead of four o'clock The fame with the Orange Club on Tuesday, November 5, will be called at three o'clock...
...compelled to include it in the lives of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court. Jay's services as representative of the Confederacy at Madrid would entitle him to a place in a history of the diplomats of the country. The life of a man whose claims to posthumous fame are based upon so many conspicuous public services must contain much of interest to American readers. Yet it is evident that the author of "John Jay," in the American Statesmen series, does not rest his real claim for the fame of Jay upon his services as a political leader, governor...
...Arnold's fame as a literary critic rests on his two well known collections of essays. The essence of criticism, he says, is disinterestedness. At the same time he well understood that it was the sine qua non of a great critic to have a definite point of view. He chose a text and threw a strong and steady light upon it. His horizon was wider even than that of St. Beuve's. Yet he sometimes fell into ambiguities, and was often led astray by his fondness for phrases. Arnold will always live, nevertheless, as the greatest English critic...
...corps was organized as a militia company with a captain, a lieutenant, and ensign, four sergeants, and a corporal to each section. There were regular drills, parades and reviews, the two gala occasions of the year being an annual visit to Medford to visit Governor Brooks of revolutionary fame, whom the corps made its hero and a visit to Boston where the father of a member of the corps entertained it at dinner. Two other events of great importance were the annual election of officers and the ceremonious installment which took place in the old Parker Hotel on Brighton street...
...chapters of Nicolay and Hay's remarkable history of Abraham Lincoln, the publication of which is undoubtedly the greatest work ever undertaken by a magazine. The last installment describes the capture of Jefferson Davis and the end of the war, and closes with an able analysis of Lincoln's fame as a statesman. In connection with the capture of Davis, James Harrison Wilson and William P. Stedman describe their experience in two interesting papers...