Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been planned on yesterday, the birthday of James Russell Lowell to hold a public meeting in Sanders Theatre in in the morning at which Mr. Wayne Mac Veagh, formerly Attorney General of the United States and an old friend of Mr. Lowell, was to give an address. Owing to Mac Veagh's illness, however, the plan had to be given up for the present...
...different nature, but fully as good in its way, is "Roland s Reform." It is thoroughly local in its character, the men in the story - the frank, apparently priggish but really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...
...dull, wise. God is the God of all and no man can approach fulness of stature until he realizes his dependence on God and trusts in Him, not as having some vogue authority over men in general, but loves Him as his own God and his own friend...
...translation of "Eleven Letters of Dante," which won for Mr. C. S. Latham '88, the prize of the Dante Society in 1890, has been published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The work is edited by Mr. Latham's friend, Mr. G. R. Carpenter 86, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton, in a simple description of the circumstances under which the translation was produced, has furnished an affecting preface to the volume. Mr. Latham's affliction, his long confinement, his labors, his hopeful struggle against almost overwhelming misfortunes and finally his death before he learned...
...Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea...