Word: got
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sent a piece of poetry, to Lord Halifax, an excellent piece of work, although he was only a second rate poet. On the death of the king, Addison lost his pension and in 1703 returned home to live in a garret without either profession or income. But soon he got a position and honors flowed upon him, when the Lord Treasurer, who wanted the Blenheim victory celebrated, went to the author of the Italian letter. In 1709 he went to Ireland as Keeper of Records, but was too nervous and reticent to succeed as speaker in the Irish parliament...
...second lap amid wild cheering Brewer kept leaving Scoville further and further behind until at the end of his last lap Harvard was over 20 yards in the lead. N. H. Bingham '93 and G. S. French, Yale, were the next pair. Bingham ran in magnificent form and easily got away from French, finishing out by about 45 yards. W. F. Garcelon 1 L. S. and R. C. Anderson were the third men to run. The two were evenly matched and Garcelon just held the lead he had started with. The last pair to run were S. M. Merrill...
...closing he stated that the cost of running the Institute for one year is about $155,000, That the United States gives $20,000 for the Indians, the State of Virginia $10,000 and $10,000 is made from investments. A large amount is also got from the work done in the school. The rest is made up in various ways...
...always bright and cheerful, interested in club work, and at the same time a good worker. He was one of the organizers of the Banjo Club, an editor of the Advocate, and a member of the Pudding and O. K. And although so much with his fellow students he got a Detur in his freshman year, and graduated with honorable mention, and the degree-cum Laude. The memorial service held at his church on Monday, where there were present so many men showed only too clearly how he was esteemed here at Harvard...
...part of Faust, and as the correspondence took place at the same time Goethe was writing this half it is not at all improbable that he was influenced by these wood-cuts. The most conspicuous coincidence is in regard to the mother scene. Goethe himself when asked where he got his idea said from Plutarch. In the Hypnerotomachia however, there are two wood-cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero after he had passed through the gate with...