Word: historians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...UTTER.SAMOSET CLUB.- All members who can not be present at the annual dinner on Friday, May 22, at 7 p. m., must notify the historian at once...
Alexander Bliss of the class of 1847 died at his home in Washington, Thursday, in his sixty-ninth year. He was a stepson of the late George Bancroft, the historian, and his secretary of legation while Mr. Bancroft was minister to Germany. Colonel Bliss was born in Boston. His father, Alexander Bliss of Spring field, was at one time a partnes of Daniel Webster. Colonel Bliss was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1847, with Charles A. Dana and George William Curtis...
...when it enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed many tears. The latter was the real funnel through which romanticism invaded Russian poetry. He was the real precursor of Russia's greatest poet-Poushkin...
Richard Hildreth, 1826, Historian...
Francis Parkman, 1844. Historian...