Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most interesting things in the number is a fragment entitled "The Athletic Question Twenty five Years Ago," in which is printed a characteristic letter, or rather note, by James Russell Lowell on a base ball topic...
...last, but not least, a "Person," and in general show that Mr. Stockton is in the highest of spirits. Miss Murfree's serial "Felicia" ends the present number and ends tragically. Mr. Francis P. Church contributes an interesting paper about Richard Grant White, and in a bright autobiographic fragment, entitled "My Schooling," we are told of James Freeman Clarke's early educational training. "The State University in America," by George E. Howard, advocates the establishment of universities in each State, which shall be universities in something more than name, and the relegation of the many colleges of insufficient means...
...verse in the fifth number of the Advocate is better than the prose. "To Pan," though a well worn theme, is pretty and melodious. The "Saga of Lake" is an exceedingly clever fragment which ought to have been signed. The "Secret of Love" deserves commendation, particularly for its form...
...unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with the necessary changes in favor of monotheism, into their own psalm-book. The stereopticon views presented temples, sacrificial laws, and psalms, the Babylonian in the cuneiform character and the Hebrew in the Hebrew character. Specially noteworthy was the fragment of a Babylonian alliterative hymn, divided into paragraphs of five lines each. all the lines in a given paragraph beginning with the same sign or syllable. The hymn was in praise of a restorer of the great temple at Babylon...