Word: globe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chess trophy offered by Mr. Isaac L. Rice of New York has just been received by the Chess Club. The trophy, is a silver cup, having at its top the arms of England, with the English and American flags crossed below. Beneath, supported by two female figures, is a globe showing two hemispheres connected by a cable. Below the globe is represented the American eagle, and on a shield which forms the background of the whole are, on one side, the shields of the four American universities, and on the other those of Oxford and Cambridge. A laurel wreath surrounds...
...church in which John Harvard was baptized, it is further noted as the burial place of John Gowen, the poet and friend of Chaucer, the dramatists Massinger and Fietcher, Edmund Shakspeare, the brother of William, and Lawrence Fletcher, who was joint lessee with with Shakspeare and Burbrige of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres. An excellent view of the interior of the church forms the frontispiece of the Graduates' Magazine for September...
WATCH OUT FOR THE GLOBE.- Cambridge's Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration will be covered in first-class shape...
...Globe will have the best news reports of the events in the coming celebration. The addresses to be delivered before the scholars in Sanders Theatre, at the public meeting and at the banquet in Union Hall will be given fully, and every detail of the celebration will receive its share of attention. The procession will be photographed at various points along the route, and many of the elaborately decorated buildings throughout the city will be shown. The articles will also be profusely illustrated with portraits of the prominent men who will participate. You will want The Globe on each...
...Under biennials the quality of legislation would deteriorate; R. S. Bridgman, New England Magazine, VIII, G. F. Williams, Springfield Republican, Jan. 31, 1996; Boston Herald, Jan. 31, 1896; Boston Globe, Feb. 15, 1896.- (a) The legislature would be less efficient.- (b) The members would feel less strongly their responsibility to the people.- (c) Members would be more liable to the influence of private interests...