Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought you had no name," said I to Macaulay's creation...
ALMOST every one, in reading Macaulay, must have been struck by the numerous allusions to an imaginary school-boy, who is called upon to refresh the memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or the theory of government. I have always had a great reverence for this imaginary personage, whom I think as badly treated as was the famous Mr. Blank, mentioned in the Spectator...
...Sunday afternoon, a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my room with a volume of Macaulay in my hand, musing upon the looks and character of my friend the school-boy, when there came a knock at the door. To my shout of "Come in!" there entered a person whom I at once recognized as the wonderful boy I had so long desired to see. His head was small; his eyes had a sleepy look in them, and were of dull gray; his nose inclined to the pug; and his mouth was large and inexpressive; but his hair...
...said the other, "I must study," and he began to repeat a list of the Popes. "Besides," he added, "here is a quotation from Pope that Macaulay says every one knows by heart, and I must learn...
Master of Arts.John Henry Appleton, A. B., LL.B.; Henry Hall Buck, A B., LL.B.; Arthur Tracy Cabot, A.B., M.D.; Richard Tapper Cadbury, A.B.; Reginald Gray, A.B., LL.B.; Thomas Macaulay, A.B.; William Reuben Richards, A.B., LL.B.; Albert Smith Thayer, A.B., LL.B.; Hollis Thayer, A.B., LL.B.; Samuel Dennis Warren, A.B., LL.B.; Harold Wheeler, A.B.; Harold Whiting, A.B.; Rufus Phillips Williams...