Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR WILLIAM G. FARLOW will deliver twelve lectures for the Lowell Institute on the "Lower Forms of Plant Life." The lectures will be given on successive Monday and Thursday evenings...
...calm and cool life-heated heart and brain...
...wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view and development in the latter part. While the writing is not always as choice in conception and language...
...contact with students of all classes, and the strict integrity of his character was well known throughout the University. He was an able scholar, having done two years' work in one and passed from the Sophomore to the Senior class. He had laid well the foundation of a useful life...
Standing at the confluence of the poetic streams of the past and the future, surrounded by these memorials of others' greatness, one involuntarily reverts to the actions of one's own life to see what has been done that renders one worthy to be handed down to posterity. My deeds of valor, displayed on many a gory field when our country was in peril, are recorded in the sacred pages of history; in peace unable to divest myself of the military habits formed by four years of arduous service, I continued to follow the occupation for which I was best...