Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement made a very interesting sketch. The denouement is particularly happy, and by it the reader's attention is held to the last. We wonder, by the way, what perron in Monaco the hero found so familiar...
...Massachusetts Bicycle Club house was a scene of brilliancy and gayety Saturday evening, when Thomas Stevens, the hero of the trip around the world, was given a reception...
...perhaps, has more deeply interested his audience than the speaker of last night. We all acknowledge a thrill of delight in listening to a man who has really fought the Apaches, who knows what it is to be on the warpath and who is not merely a newspaper hero. Although the Cambridge Indian Rights Association, perhaps, did not have Harvard students particularly in mind when Sanders Theatre was selected as the place for the meeting, we assure the association that Harvard appreciated the opportunity to hear Gen. Crook. We hope that other Cambridge societies may follow this example in inviting...
...short. In course of time, however, this important position fell to the jolliest man in the class. The poorest scholar, if indeed there were any choice of ignorance in such a club, was made "Vice-Admiral," the commission of "Rear-Admiral," was granted to the laziest man, and the hero of oaths and profanity was decked with the gown of "Chaplain." With such men to lead them one can form a conception of what a motley crew the members of the Navy Club must have been...
...Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling by a cord, with a young man. The picture of the man with his pioe half...