Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last three of these buildings are the gift of Mr. J. P. Morgan. Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, part of the Rockefeller-endowment, together with $250,000 from a Boston gentleman, who desires that his name be kept unpublished, has provided for the other buildings...
...than the usual amount of literary slang, and if most of what he has to say of William Watson's poetry is fairly obvious, it is at least clearly thought out. W. A. Green's "The Versatile Mr. Kipling," is less satisfactory. He is guilty of saying that "in 'Gentleman Rankers' there is a more serious turn of finality" than in "the whimsically pathetic protest of 'Tommy'." If the Monthly had had a style book. Mr. Green would have been forced to tell us what he really meant. Now we shall never know...
...clock,in Sever 11, Mr. Copeeland's course of lectures on English Essayists will conclude with a discussion of the life and essays of Robert Louis Stevenson. Among the essays to be commented on, are "Walking Tours," "On Fall in in Love," "A Letter to a Young Gentleman," "A Gossip on Romance," "A Christmas Sevmon...
...secret of his happiness, that he may restrict the circle of his intimates to those whose tastes square with his own and to whom he can look for all around betterment. But if we are to think of him as one who never inflicts pain, the gentleman cannot retain his integrity and let pass unnoticed the acquaintance whose hand he has over grasped and who is one with him in a great and, as we are fond of thinking, an ideal society of scholars. UNDERGRADUATE...
This evening at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will give the third lecture in the series on English Essayists. The subject will be William Hazlitt, author of "Actors and Acting," "The Indian Jugglers," "The Fight," "On Going a Journey," "On the Look of a Gentleman," "The English Novelists," "Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen," and other essays on men, society, and books...