Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Uutil very recently it has been though that Defoe was the father of the modern realistic novel. Dr., Ernest Bernbaum '02, in his work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms...
...born in Cambridge on July 27, 1837, and at the age of 17 was appointed janitor of the College Library, in the place of his father, who had for 29 year, in his turn, been "distributing books and extending courtesies" in the words of Mr. Sibley, one-time librarian. From this position he graduated to that which he held at his death, which is the more remarkable since the period saw the introduction of system and an increase in size of the Library that revolutionized the requirements of the post. Mr. Kiernan was able to do this because...
...Larz Anderson Bridge is a great improvement over the previous structure and is to be entirely completed for Class Day, with the possible exception of the paying. It was built by Larz Anderson, of the class of 1888, in memory of his father, Nicholas Longworth '58. The cement sidewalks are already in place. The bridge is constructed of reenforced concrete with granite and red brick trimmings, and is 440 feet long and 60 feet wide. Its completion marks the end of congested crowds going to the games and exercises in the Stadium...
Announcement has been made of the complete program for this year's Northfield Conferences and summer schools. The call for the gatherings is signed by William R. Moody, whose father, Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, established the conferences 32 years ago, three years after he had founded Northfield Seminary. There are really six conferences open to all conducted upon "the Northfield platform" which Mr. Moody defines with much emphasis in his invitation to the public...
...Father Harvey Officer '95, of the Order of the Holy Cross, New York, N. Y., will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...