Word: islands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity and a hot-house poppy? The future alone can decide. But whatever may come, may we never...
...canal projects have been brought before Congress : One, to construct a channel from the Hudson along the Harlem river to the outer edge of Randall's Island; the other, to authorize a survey for a ship canal from Toledo to the lower points of Lake Michigan...
Sealing steamer Lion sunk and all hands lost off Baccalieu island, near St. John...
...thwee. Jerusalem, you are pwessing mattahs too fah. At Hawvawd we feel ah that we ah must patronize Emerson a little-ah, but the awdawcious fellah, actually-ah. - Yes, this is a Harvard Senior. Is he always thus? He is not when he takes a surf bath at Coney Island. "Cultuah" can then be - relegated to Boston where it belongs...
...General Assembly of Rhode Island, the name of George Edmund Waring was changed for business purposes to Guy Waring. The change becomes legal...