Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recovery of the bones of Theseus from the island of Scyros gave a great impulse to the development of the Arts in Athens, query, would the recovery of Stewart's body have a like effect in New York...
...what description is this new invention? I really do not know. Perhaps it is like one of Krupp's guns. If so, what excellent swabbers and rammers and powder-monkeys the proctors would make! Perhaps - but why should I speculate? Why should the idea - the exceedingly faint and undefined idea - that at the approaching semi-annuals the brains of each and every one of us are to be carefully removed, dissected, weighed, and measured by this infallible instrument transform me into a querulous interrogation-point? Let us welcome the new machine, and accept with courage its edicts, conscious that they...
FIRST SOPHOMORE. I say, Tom, how do you like this foggy weather...
...been home many hours; the female members of the family had not exclaimed more than a thousand times, "Why, Fred, how you've changed! I 'd hardly know you!" my younger brother had only just succeeded in smashing my first cane, when word was brought that, "Your father would like to see you in the study, Mr. Fred...
...continued, "are you from Harvard? I have a cousin there, Tom Hammersmith; do you know him? People say he looks like...