Word: franked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appointments for commencement at Brown University have been announced. They are as follows: Oration and valedictory address, Walter Goodnow Everett, Southampton, Vt.; Latin salutatory, Frank Leslie Day, Keene, N. H.; classical oration, Ferdinand Courtney French, Providence, R. L.; philosophical oration, Andrew McCorrie Warren, Fall River, Mass...
...stated meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday forenoon at the office of the treasurer, President E. Rockwood Hoar occupying the chair. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in the appointment of Frank Gaylord Cook, A. B., as proctor, and of Josiah Royce, Ph. D., as assistant professor of philosophy for five years, from Sept. 1, 1885. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D., presented the report of the committee to which was referred the petition of the students for changes of the rules regarding attendance at college prayers, with the following...
...these quotations that I have made from his letters, I think Boswell's real self can be seen. He was fickle and impetuous: he was careless of others: he was vain beyond measure. But he was so open in his likes and dislikes, so frank in thought, and at times so generous, that we must see a certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote...
...Bostonians the most critical, sharp, bright, and sensitive: "But all were most enthusiastic and indulgent. My reception at the academic centres-at Harvard University, at Yale College, at that brilliant young nucleus of scholarly life, the Johns Hopkins University-was uniformly cordial and touching. Everywhere the welcome was frank, complete, and far beyond my deserts...
...trial of the Fort Popham shooting case, by which Frank Smith, an '84 man, was shot and killed over two years ago, still drags on in the courts. The judge has reserved his decision and the court has adjourned until...