Word: friend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these amazing days, when we no longer respond to the sight of a friend's name on a theatre program with that emotional thrill compounded of surprise and righteous satisfaction at successful prophecy,--so commonplace a thing it now is to behold some vanished Tom, Dick or Harry's fame glowing above the play-house door,--it may be pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college...
With incidents quite as frequent and action and action quite as rapid came Lady Gregory's play, "The Jackdaw." A jackdaw, it should be premised, is a bird. Michael Cooney, out of goodness of heart, would rescue Mrs. Broderick, his old time friend, from the throes of debt. He tries to do so discreetly by entrusting for her ten pounds with Joseph Nestor, who cannot resist, when he sees Mrs. Broderick return from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole...
Another prominent member of the class to which Justice Holmes belongs was the late Henry Pickering Bowditch: "soldier and scholar-teacher and friend." The brief biographical sketch by Dr. Harold C. Ernst '76 is timely and just. Dr. Bowditch by birth, by breeding, and by serviceableness represented the quintessence of Massachusetts culture and citizenship, whose consistent but unostentatious motto was ich dien...
...smoker or a reception for all your own and your room-mate's advisees sometime in the future when College is well under way is an excellent plan. Just now, however, it is the time for the Senior to meet his group of Freshmen and make himself their "friend for life." For without it be from friend to friend, advice can have but little weight...
...years ago M. A. DeWolfe Howe of Boston found the letter in some old files while he was preparing for publication "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft." An opportunity to make inquiries suggested by the letter presented itself in 1908 when Mr. Howe's friend, Louis A. Holman of Boston, went to England for several months of work involving antiquarion and other research. In Plymouth Mr. Holman could get little information about Rev. John Harvard who preached there sixty years before, but he finally learned of two sons, Rev. John C. Harvard of Sheffield, who had died...