Word: humphreys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared in the Advocate this year. "Seven Hours," by M. Seasongood '00, is not a very clever tale. Its plot is weak, and the dialect which is sprinkled through it is hardly successful. In "The Hangers -On," by L. D. Humphrey, is seen that much over worked form of the short story,--the expanded daily theme...
Very different is Edward Richard's tale of the Franco-Prussian War, a straight-forward, vigorous story, with a refreshing roughness about it. "Pursuit," by W. Stevens '01, and "A Friend's Privileges," by Lewis D. Humphrey '01, are of the daily theme type. The most interesting contribution to the number is a short and "chatty" tale, "My Uncle, the Ghost," by A. H. Gilbert '01. It contains a touch of wit, which is rarely found in the Advocate's stories...
...ladies who are to receive are Mrs. Agassiz, President of Radcliffe College; Miss Irwin, Dean; Miss Alice Longfellow, Miss Lillian Wing, and the class officers. The class officers are: President, Miss C. L. Humphrey; vice-president, Miss Mand Wood; secretary, Miss A. F. Stratton; treasurer, Miss E. A. Winship...
COMPANY A, 1900.- Rifle practice Friday, in the following order: 1.30-Adams, Adsit, Bond, Cabell; 1.50-Chase, Cohen, Dana, Dixon; 2.10-Emery, Fitch, Fabyan, Fitzgerald; 2.30-Foster, Fox, Hammond, Harbeck; 2.50-Holt, Humphrey, Morison, Mortland; 3.10-Pearsons, Phippen, Rawle, Reed; 3.30-Robinson, Stickney, Wallace, Willard; 3.50-Wilson, Woodworth, Barnfield, Melcher; 4.10-Durham, Dustin, Dolan. Officers and non-commissioned officers fill vacancies...
...subject of Mr. Copeland's fourth lecture-to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening-is Tobias Smollett, author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphrey Clinker." The lecture will be part biography, part criticism. In the treatment of Smollet's work, his novels will be discussed not only in themselves, but in their degree of contrast to the novels of Fielding and Thackeray, and their degree of likeness to those of Dickens...