Word: grew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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WILL the following men from '96 please meet at No. 7 Hilton's at seven o'clock this evening. Very important. L. B. Cagdon, G. Wrenn. H. Grew, A. Brewer. F. Balch, W. Rogers, G. Whitehead...
Before such audiences John Dryden made his fame or, perhaps better won his popularity. His plays at first very poor, gradually grew better until finally he captured the London court, and henceforth his position was secure. Dryden was hardly a man of lofty ideals, and he much preferred the popularity of the moment and its substantial rewards than any amount of posthumous glory...
...been so closely connected with us For many years he served upon our Board of Preachers until the exacting duties of Bishop forced him to break his connection with us. It was much against his wish that he did so, and he hoped at the time, when he grew more familiar with his work as Bishop, that he could return to us, if not to conduct prayers at least to preach on occasional Sunday evenings; but as time passed he found that his work demanded so much from him that it was impossible to consider this...
...Nichols, R. W. Harrison, L. I. Prouty, C. W. Shope, M. Ladd, E. B. Hill, W. Brooks, A. A. Morton, L. Sayer, T. Martin, E. K. Bowser, H. A. Leekley, C. S. Fuller, J. H. Gade, J. Green, S. K. Fenellosa, L. T. Hildreth, R. C. Grew, H. Emerson, C. Brewer, H. Dudley, W. Garcelon, G. L. Collins, G. D. Whitehead, G. B. Orwig, M. Green, H. H. Greene, A. K. Hooker, D. Winter, K. Brown, F. H. Cummings, E. Goldmark, J. W. Schereschewsky, H. P. Williams, T. W. Nolton, E. P. Fay, J. G. Lee, A. E. Ullman...
...Black delivered the second of his interesting course of lectures to a large audience. He began at the beginning of English Literature. likening its growth to that of a tree; and investigated when and where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings lecture...