Word: less
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With regard to what is called an American Henley, I note that various opinions and declarations have been attributed to me, all more or less incorrectly. One of this morning's Boston papers quotes me as having made certain remarks on this point. I never made them. Indeed I have not been interviewed with reference to this subject since I landed, early in November...
...could be found of the absurd extremity to which the newspaper interviewing nuisance is carried than the persistency with which Mr. Lehmann has been badgered for opinions on all sorts of subjects, whether or not connected with his work at Harvard. In the present instance the "quotation" has even less than the usually slight foundation of truth, being gracefully manufactured to order...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
...number of students attending the Bussey Institution this year is less than it has been for several years, owing to the falling off in interest in landscape gardening. A few men, however, come in even as late as Christmas. A new course is given this year by Mr. Morse on Natural History from an agricultural point of view, and more special attention is being given to Mr. Watson's course in landscape gardening. It shows the value of trees and shrubs for ornamental purposes, and instructs in practical greenhouse work...
...having the class seated alphabetically at the meeting and obliging them to keep their seats the voting can be as secret and fair as by the Australian system proposed, and it surely will be far less complicated...