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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse, and his cap is still upon...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...representatives of the dramatic talent at Harvard, and recognize the full responsibility resting upon them. Under the able instruction of Mr. Jones, with the assistance of Prof. Child in regard to the text, and of some of the Latin professors in regard to the costumes, we may look forward to an intelligent, correct, and instructive rendering of the play...
...look at the results of this last year's work. The membership is sixty more than was supposed to be the greatest seating capacity of the hall, and this extraordinary number of members (730) has continued unchanged, except for a few days at a time, since October 1st. The bill of fare has been improved in every possible way that was consistent with the scheme for carrying on the hall...
...Judge Holmes, who was a most popular professor in the Law School before he was appointed to the bench, the Gazette says: "Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is one of the youngest men that ever sat upon the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, and he looks even very much younger than he is. It is difficult to realize that 22 years ago he was an officer in the Federal army and was left for dead upon a Southern battlefield, for he does not, as he sits upon the bench, look a day over 35. In view of his recognized learning...