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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Greene is perhaps the best thing in this line in the number, though it can hardly be called poetry. "The Song of Man" by H. B. Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice as to how to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/18/1893 | See Source »

...which Dartmouth College started was a school founded in 1769 for the education of the American Indian. In 1770 an institution was founded in New Jersey and called Queen's College, so named by King George III in honor of his wife. Fifty years after the revolution, this institution, like King's College. changed its title and became Rutgers College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Colleges in the United States. | 3/15/1893 | See Source »

...attitude taken by Harvard in her recent letter to the Yale base-ball management we consider most fair and sportsman like. She has clearly outlined her policy which is one that is quite all embracing on the points at issue, and yet not so radical as to cause her to fall into any act of injustice either towards her own candidates or the teams and representatives of other colleges. The rules which she proposes to adopt in her athletic reform are in some respects less sweeping than those we have here adopted; in other points they are even more radical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Courant Editorial. | 3/15/1893 | See Source »

...Christ. As a heavy fall of snow, that, for the time, blocks all communication among men, is melted away in the presence of a genial sun; so the barriers of sect disappear and must disappear before such a kindly personality as that of the gentle preacher of Harvard. Men like him do not break barriers, they melt; they do not make an attack, they create an atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funeral of Dr. Peabody. | 3/14/1893 | See Source »

Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday noon at the funeral of the late Dr. Peabody. As the casket was borne in, preceded by the pallbearers, the audience rose like one, and stood till it was placed beneath the pulpit. After the Reverend Edward H. Hall had read passages from the scripture and offered prayer, Professor F. G. Peabody spoke upon the life of the dead preacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funeral of Dr. Peabody. | 3/14/1893 | See Source »

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