Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ATLANTIC MONTHLY.-The opening chapters of three serial stories' Charles Egbert Craddock's "Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," Sarah Orne Jewett's "A March Island," and Mrs. Oliphant's "A Country Gentleman," render the Atlantic for January a remarkable number. Oliver Wendell Holmes begins a series of papers (to be continued throughout the year) entitled "A New Portfolio," and the first number is full of the old time charm, wit, pathos, and other delightful qualities of the genial Autocrat. Articles of literary interest are a thoughtful study of "Childhood in Greek and Roman Literature," by Horace E. Scudder...
...associated with the study of some other language or branch of learning. Yet In spite of these disadvantages, for the last few years the study of English has rapidly increased and now takes a front rank in the curriculum of the southern academies and colleges. A gentleman who for ten years was an instructor in English at a southern college gives his opinion as follows...
...Every member must be ready for exercise every day except Saturday at the proper time, and must participate in every part of the team drill, or else give proper excuse for not doing so to the gentleman in charge of the division...
...chapel at the cost of $30,000, provided that twice that amount should be raised from some source for a library. In the mean while, Halsey J. Boardman, Esq., late of Providence, R. I., informed the trustees that it would be in accordance with the known wishes of that gentleman that his legacy of $50,000, when paid, should be used for the erection of a library building. The proposition was satisfactory to Mr. Rollins. The library is of brick and Longmeadow red stone, tasteful and convenient, and strictly fireproof, capable of holding 165,000 volumes. The college library...
...telegraphed to the Yale freshman captain to know if the game was to be played, and received the following telegram. "No game to-morrow, Harvard Faculty object." In view of the facts which we published in last Friday's issue, we can well understand the opinion which the gentleman who received the telegram expressed when he characterized the telegram as a "downright falsehood...