Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beal of the class of 1893 has presented to the botanical museum, through Professor Farlow, an enormous fruit of Artocarpus, the species being that which is known in the tropics as the "Jack-fruit," allied to the well-known Bread-fruit...
Boston Theatre-The Emma Jack Opera...
...evening the judiciary committee, having arranged the matters entrusted to it satisfactorily, made its report. The same rules of playing which were adopted by the intercollegiate league will be used by the association. The Spaulding ball also be used. Two very good men were secured for umpires when Jack Manning of Boston and D. J. O' Neill, of Holyoke, were selected. The schedule arranged for the season is as follows...
Despite a little unnatural wealth of incidents, Mr. Maynadier's story, entitle "The Reward of Virtue," is both interesting and in the main, natural. The discovery that he had been the victim of a dream is quite as unexpected to the reader as to Jack Hunter himself; and this very circumstance adds not a little to the effectiveness of the story. Were any comparison to be drawn between the stories in the present number of the Advocate it would seem to be but just to pronounce that of Mr. Mayandier the best...
...CRIMSON board has received a very prettily-gotten up copy of "Jack, the Fisherman," Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' new story. Although it is a tale with a moral, it is one of the most powerful and interesting stories ever written. It is the life of a Gloucester fisherman who, inheriting a taste for rum, rapidly follows the downward course, and ends by killing his wife and himself, leaving a little child to face the world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even...