Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...COSMOPOLITAN.The frontespiece to the number is a beautiful drawing by H. Siddons Mowbray in illustration of a poem by John Vance Cheney. Charles DeKay contributes an article on 'Munich as an Art Centre,' with which are published a number of reproductions of famous paintings of the German School. A series of papers on the 'Great Railway Systems of the United States' is begun and H. H. Boyesen's 'Social Strugglers' is continued. The other features of interest are a story called 'Three Forms,' John A. Cockerill's 'Some Phases of Contemporary Journalism,' and N. L. Taylor's article...
...stately procession the class escorted the officers of the college to the President's house, where refreshments - wine, cake, and lemonade - were served. The afternoon was spent in drinking punch and dancing on the green. In 1826 the graduating class was escorted to its exercises by the famous Harvard Washington Corps. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was poet of the class '29. The following extract from a diary is of interest...
...Williams, Yale '91, the famous hurdler, has been engaged as athletic instructor at Pencharter School, Philadelphia...
...England Magazine for the month might almost be called a "history" number. Of the twelve prose numbers, eight are directly concerned with events of the past or with people and places famous in our national history. Mr. W. E. Curtis contributes the first of a series of articles on "The South American Republics," and interesting accounts of Columbus, of "Henry Clay as Speaker of the House of Representatives," and of Governor Winthrop, also appear...
...first of the communications on the front page, a suggestion is made which is certainly worthy serious consideration. That Germany should have honored the memory of famous Harvard men when their own Alma Mater had neglected to do so in the same specific way seems almost incomprehensible. The nearest approach that we have at Harvard to the practice of Gottingen in erecting tablets inscribed with the names of famous men who have attended the University are the tablets in Memorial Hall to the memory of heroes whom our Alma Mater mourns...