Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charge of having married her under false pretences. He had given out that he was master of the trade of stringing pearls, but, when called upon to earn his living, said that the pearls he meant were the pearls of speech. The judge was pleased with the fellow's ingenuity, and, after urging the woman to submit to the will of her lord, dismissed the man with a present of money. In the eleventh the narrator sees the same rascal making a pious speech at a funeral, by which he manages to collect a considerable sum from the sorrowing relatives...
...Francis Wayland, dean of Yale Law School, has been elected a Fellow of Brown University...
...know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared out and went to New York...
...branches which they know little about. Their principal victims are, of course, freshmen; and one case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen against going to seminars indiscriminately. Let me add that I am not in any way a rival to seminar givers, nor have I ever been to them...
...addition to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The total amount of gifts for immediate use is $36,024.59, and of gifts to form new funds or increase old ones, $987,551.14. The gifts from George W. Childs of a memorial window of the late Prof. Henry W. Long-fellow, to be placed in Memorial Hall, and from William E. Sparks, the historical manuscripts which belonged to his father, the late Jared Sparks, are acknowledged. The college term bills brought in a total of $198,855.96, and the college salaries footed a total of $35,068.50. The grand total expenses...