Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rogers lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...
...Liberal," says the London Times, "or for the Minister of the United States at St. James', that the St. Andrew's student voted; it was for the author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend of Hawthorne, the successor to Long fellow's chair at Harvard; one of the leaders in the society which has invested Cambridge, in Massachusetts, with something of the halo of Weimar; the expert in English Literature who has redeemed the name of Fielding from unmerited reproaches...
...many Harvard men resident in this locality, writes a Worcester correspondent to the Springfield Republican. They tell a variety of curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled...
Among the recent treasures placed in the library is a cast of Cromwell's face. It was presented by Prof. Norton who received it from his friend Thomas Carlyle...
During the vacation Conway R. Brown, of the freshman class, while laboring under temporary aberration of the mind, shot himself dead at the house of a friend whom he was visiting in Providence. The deceased was a son of Henry W. Brown of Worcester. He traveled for several years in Europe and was an attendant at the German schools, but prepared for college at Exeter Academy. He was a bright and promising young man, universally liked, and his early death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends and class-mates...