Word: like
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such a careful selection as is contained in this volume. As the name implies, the work is modelled after Palgrave's well-known collection of English verse. Of course it can not be considered such a literary gem as the older book, for the poetry of a new country like ours cannot furnish such a field for selection as that of an older nation. It will, however, serve as a basis of comparison by which American verse may be judged. It is inevitable that many readers will find favorite poems omitted but as a whole the work of a compiler...
Besides thi, twenty-five men, divided into "Amusement Troupes," have cheered the poor and suffering in such institutions as the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, and the Suffolk County Parental School. Groups of students engaged in managing various charitable enterprises like the Sailors' Reading Room, and the Riverside Mission, have found in Mr. Birtwell a friend and an adviser...
...which Lane's scholarship and good fellowship were held, and to the strict conscientiousness with which he devoted himself, in season and out of season, to the study of his chosen profession. One of his German friends once said that it was not true that he could speak German like a native (as was sometimes reported), but that it was true that he could imitate a local German dialect so that a man from another part of the country would think it was his native tongue...
...Goodwin 1900, J. C. Greenway 1900, and G. S. Chauncey 98S., have had charge of the work throughout the season, and Sanford 97 L. S., has given them considerable aid. In the games this fall the eleven has shown that it was handicapped by lack of weight. Preparatory schools like Williston and Hotchkiss have either tied or defeated the freshmen, and Andover won from them by a score...
...idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage of 1,200,000, and the voltage required to run an electric car is only 500. This instrument can evolve a spark fifty inches in length and in doing so gives a loud report like lightning...