Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...somewhat over a year with great success. Steele created the Spectator Club, and among other characters that of Sir Roger de Coverley. Steele had much the greater facility at the invention of incident and character, while Addison could tone these down and get them in proper form, as his friend could not. In December 1712 the Spectator came to an end, Addison in the last number killing Sir Roger, as he states himself "so their no one else should murder...
...falls in love with her. The two get on very well together until Silberling arrives at Buchenan, intending also to sue for the hand of fair Agnes - he has heard that she is to receive a large dowry. Silberling brings some letters, among them one for Agnes, from a friend, who encloses a letter written by von Fink, in which he complains bitterly because his uncle wants him to marry that "silly country goose at Buchenan." Agnes, disappointed and offended, turns from Fink and accepts Silberling...
Trinity College will give a drama entitled "Everybody's Friend" on April...
...annual dinner of the Harvard alumni of Chicago toasts were responded to as follows: "Harvard College" Prof. J. B. Ames of the Law School; "Harvard's Influence in the University of Chicago," Prof. P. Shorey of Chicago University; "Our friend the Enemy" Chester M. Dawes of Yale...
...Hoar was a great friend of Prof. Agassiz and was himself quite a scientist. He was many times invited to deliver lectures on geology and other sciences by the colleges in New England but always declined...