Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Grateful Little Cuss," by Mr. R. T. French, is a delightful piece of work. The little street gamin, proud of his robbery in his friend's behalf, in spite of all that can be said to him by way of remonstrance, makes a very pathetic hero, and enlists the reder's unrestricted sympathy. The dialect is especially well done...
...picture of the exquisite courtesy and politeness of a certain Chinese gentleman named U-u. This U-u showed a characteristic bit of Chinese courtesy-which might be recommended to Harvard men-when, declining to smoke more than one or two puffs of a cigar given him by a friend or to take more than one or two sips of wine, he said, not that they were too strong for him, but that he was not strong enough for them...
...TRUE FRIEND OF JOHN...
...entries for the games. It is certainly time that men go into these class games with a spirit entirely different from the one which they have shown in past years. The sort of thing which we object to is to have a man enter an event to oblige a friend and make the number of entries just large enough to keep the event from being thrown out altogether. The friend wins a prize very likely, and then enters another event to return the obligation to the first kind friend. Contests like these are worth absolutely nothing, and we much rather...
...magazine are "Personal Recollections of Schliemann," a gossipy paper, full of amusing anecdotes of the great archaeologist, especially interesting at this time, when the air is full of biographical projects concerning him. The writer, Hon. Charles R. Tuckerman, at one time United States Minister to Greece, was a warm friend of Schliemann's, and his reminiscences have a strong personal flavor which renders them doubly acceptable...