Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Abrams '98, F. A. Blatchford '99, E. A. Bumpus '99, P. G. Carleton '99, J. P. Cotton '99, F. Curtis '98, J. A. Denison '98, E. D. Fullerton '98, M. S. Greenough '98, R. S. Huidekoper '98, G. A. Hoyt '99, H. James 2d '99, E. S. J. Johnson '98, C. J. Liebmann '98, M. J. McGurk '99, C. F. Marden '99, R. M. Marsh '99, R. W. Osborne '98, C. C. Payson '98, J. E. Rousmaniere '99, A. B. Ruhl '99, E. L. Sanborn, Jr., '98, H. W. King '99, J. L. Valentine '98, E. Wadsworth...
...spite of the weather there was a large audience at Mr. Copeland's lecture on "Dr. Johnson" in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon...
...Copeland began by stating the main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged...
...Johnson's life was one of hard and poverty-stricken labor. At the age of twenty-six he had married a woman of forty-eight who had no beauty and very little fortune. Johnson was besides encumbered by several pensioners, even poorer than he, whose misfortunes had excited his pity. "The Rambler," "The Lives of the Poets," and the Dictionary-finished in 1755 after a Jacobean struggle of seven years-had brought the doctor fame, but comparatively little money. In 1759, however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days...
Lecture. Four English Worthies. III. Samuel Johnson. Mr. Copeland. Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum...