Word: floss
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Parent" is quite right not to send his son to Harvard. His mistake is in resolving to send him to Columbia or anywhere else. A young man who cannot be trusted to read "The Mill on the Floss" or "Othello" should not be sent to any college whatever or allowed to go at large at all, but should be kept safe at home. - Ed. Evening Post...
...preparing for entry at Harvard, the rules required as part of the examination papers an analytical knowledge of certain of Shakespeare's plays, including the disgusting one, "Othello." The rules also required, that the boy entering should have a knowledge of the novel called "The Mill on the Floss." Appreciating the propriety of keeping such literary stuff out of a boy's head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common...
...Hall last evening, to listen to the readings for the Lee prizes, by members of '86, The readings occupied an hour, and that they were enjoyed by the audience was demonstrated by the close attention with which they were received. The selections were taken from the "Mill on the Floss" and Macaulay's "History of England." The successful contestants were as follows: Taylor, $35; Roberts, $30; Whitman, $25; Hamlin, $20; Rose, $20: Haves, $20; The following-named gentlemen acted as judges: President Eliot, Dean Smith, Profs. Hill and Thayer, and Messrs. Curtis, Hawes, Lee, Tiffany, Grant and Winson...