Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bohn's library. So many persons unable to read the originals read these translations believing them to be faithful, at least to the author's meaning, that it is much to be desired that proof after proof should be given that this is not the case. Long ago Mr. Matthew Arnold exclaimed: "Think of the difference between the translations of the classics turned out from Mr. Bohn's library and those turned out from Mr. Nisard's collection!" using it as an illustration of the lack of literary training among the men who do such work in England. And though...
Smith is the only college for women which was founded by a woman. Wellesley was founded by Mr. Durant, and Vassar by Matthew Vassar...
...Matthew Simpson memorial professorship is to be established at Dickinson College, with an endowment of $40,000 raised by elections in all Methodist churches...
...class in English V has decided that the themes of the next four months shall be based upon a study of well-known authors. Selections will be made among such writers as Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Tnackeray, and Lamb, and the themes must be in some way connected with the works of the authors chosen. DeQuincey has been taken for the December themes. His works will be placed either in the English alcove of the library, or in Sever...
...writer then makes the assertion that Matthew Arnold, the apostle of "sweetness and light," as well as Mrs. Langtry are both guilty of having used the phrase "pull myself together," but says in defence of its use that such a phrase is hardly slang when it "has passed as current by writers who have been set up as example of style." On the other hand, he continues: "It were to continue the discussion to an undue length to cite instances where certain words or phrases put under the ban, charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English...