Word: johnes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Captain Silvester Salisbury," by John J. Morris, is the account of an officer who figured in the conquest of New York...
...records relating to our founder, John Harvard, are so few and the rumors so many, that any new fact which is authentic is eagerly seized by men interested in historical research, especially those connected with our University. Thus the announcement that papers have come to light which have a direct bearing upon our founder's life, will be a source of pleasure...
...Waters. This letter was written by Mr. E. H. W. Dunkin, from Black-heath, England, about ten days ago and sent to Mr. Waters. It announces the discovery by Mr. Dunkin of the marriage license and entry of the fact of the marriage of John Harvard to Anne Sadler, which took place on the 19th of April, 1636. The exact transcripts of the original entries are soon to be printed...
...Trowbridge, of Arlington, portrayed the pathetic trials of a young play wright in the "Author's Night." Mrs. Moulton read "The House of Death," a poem of hers, dear to her old friend Phillip Burke Marston. Mr. George Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received; also the poems "Ensign Epps" and "In Bohemia." Mr. Charles Follen Adams amused his audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring...
AUTHORS' READING.On Longfellow's birthday, Monday, Feb. 27, an authors' reading will be given in Sander's Theatre, beginning at 7.15 p. m. The readers will be Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William Winter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Townsend Trowbridge, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates. Augustus Mendon Lord will read Holmes' "Chambered Nautilus" and Lowell's "Tribute...