Word: missed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present number of the Advocate returns to the College Kodaks with no particular advantage from the reader's point of view; for many of these Kodaks unfortunately fall rather flat and miss the point they are supposed to have. In the present case the other articles are fortunately more interesting, except that six of the seven editorials treat of football matters, which now seem somewhat...
Lecture. New Books and New Plays: the Letters of Lowell, Mr. Henry James's "Essays in London"; the latest works of Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Kipling, and Miss Jewett; "L'Enfant Prodigue;" and "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...formation of the directing body for the new society was of too grave importance to be hastily accomplished. Mr. and Mrs Gilman formed the nucleus, and with Professor and Mrs. Greenough held their first formal meeting on January 14, 1879, and chose Miss Horsford and Miss Longfellow for their first associates. The desired number was completed early in the next month by the addition of Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Louis Agassiz, and Mrs. E. W. Gurney; and no time was lost in getting out the first circular, which was dated February 22. In spite of the careful wording...
...nine classes, and brought into service seven professors, four assistant professors, and twelve instructors. The work for the first few years was carried on in a private house on Appian Way; but when the classes had quickly outgrown these small quarters, the society took advantage of the offer of Miss Maria Denny Fay to secure the building they have since occupied,- the old Fay House...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has for some time been at work with Miss Kate Stephens on a compilation of English prose and poetry for young folks. This compilation is now ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales...