Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dress rehearsal and as a result has much more snap and go. J. E. Catlin and D. K. Catlin as the "Beacon Babies" made perhaps the greatest hit of the evening by their Mother Goose parodies. The dances were many of them very pretty and all full of life and vigor. The most taking was the sailors hornpipe in the first...
...accounts of the country as for the traveller in the land itself. The book differs from ordinary guide-books in that it is distinctly readable. The geography of the country is thoroughly described and well illustrated by specially prepared maps. The gold mines are located and the conditions of life in all parts of Alaska discussed. The author, who is an authority on all subjects relating to our far west, is himself deeply interested in the land and writes from the point of view of a lover rather than of a casual observer of the region. The last part...
...Huntress '99 has written a criticism of seven books on Harvard life. The author makes the mistake of dwelling at length on "Harvard Stories" and " Harvard Episodes," with which all are so familiar, and devoting but short, impersonal criticisms to the earlier books which but few know about...
...sure every Harvard student is ready to lay down his life when the welfare of his country makes it necessary, but it is no evidence of patriotism to rush madly into enlistment when one's course is not clear. Our motto should be to pursue the college course with calmness, and drill...
...eighth and last lecture in the course on "English Novelists" will be given at eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11. The subject will be George Eliot. After brief comment on the author's life, Mr. Copeland will discuss her genius for literature, and the ways in which it was helped and hindered by her ethical enthusiasms and the scientific tendencies of the time...