Word: misses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matrons at the Deutscher Verein reception last night were Mrs. L. B. R. Briggs, Mrs. H. C. G. von Jagemann, Mrs. H. K. Schilling, Mrs. Dr. Max. Poll. Miss Wenckebach, German professor at Wellesley was present with about fifty Wellesley students, Addresses were made by the president, L. A. E. Ahlers and Professor Francke, and music was furnished by a double quartette from the glee club and five members of the mandolin club...
About "Bob's Particular Friend, Miss Shepard" we are rather at loss what to say. The story seemed interesting enough as it progressed, and parts of it, - the paragraph describing the "tea," for instance, were delightfully descriptive, yet the general impression left by the story was unsatisfactory. The trouble seems to be that the style is a little incoherent; one is not always sure what the writer is trying to express, so that the sequence of thought is not every where apparent...
...Miss Julia E. Buckley, one of the best known women educators in the United States, has been appointed dean of the Women's College of the new Chicago University...
...Farce entitled "Wine is a Mocker" is as good a piece of dialogue as there has been in the Advocate in some time. The unnecessary coarseness of the tipsy Mr. Ransom in his conversation with Miss Ames one feels to be bad art. It breaks unpleasantly through the playful treatment which to that point had carried the story, and implies a complication unnecessary to the climax. The picture of Mr. Ransom at the piano is capital, however, as is the exposure of Miss Ames. Although the combination of the sister and stranee chum in the brother's room while...
...will of Miss Maria Benedict, Brown University receives $10,000 to endow a professorship to be known as the "Benedict Professorship...