Word: jabez
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...sketch entitled "Hour Exams", H. C. Greene tells the story of two roommates' rivalry with gentle humor--almost too gentle at times. "Trusts--A Point of View" is a comic bit of narrative by H. S. Ross, whose feeling for detail is almost Wordsworthian. Jabez Bronson is undoubtedly the best thing in the number. "Applied Economics" is another story in which a discourse on trusts sends its auditor to sleep. It is rather a descriptive sketch than a narrative; and it is not without its good points. An unsigned allegory, called Viae Vitae", might be called a poem...
...laid on a barren island in the South Atlantic. Robert Chilton, a rich stock broker, has been wrecked on its reefs while cruising in his yacht, the "Rover"; from all the ship's company, the only survivors were Barbara, Chilton's wife, whose father is a Gloucester fisherman, and Jabez, the boatswain. The action of the play is furnished by the struggle between the men for the possession of Barbara...
...judges were President Eliot of the Corporation; Dr. William Everett '59 and Gen. William A. Bancroft '78 of the Board of Overseers; Professor Asaph Hall '79, Professor Samuel Williston '82, Hon. Jabez Fox '71, Rev. Alexander McKenzie '59, Mr. Ray Greene Huling '97, Rev. Prescott Evarts '81, and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham...
...JABEZ EOX, Esq., Chairman.HON. FRANK. A. ALLEN, Vice-Chairman...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced...