Word: misses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Besides the above mentioned articles, there is a sheaf of delightful Christmas stories, - "The Christmas Shadrach," by Frank R. Stockton; "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Wulfy; A Waif," a Christmas sketch from life by Miss Vida D. Scudder, and "The Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the last dealing with a Christmas dance on the frontier, and a number of general articles. The poetry of the number is of a high order...
...author of the communication in another column seems to us to miss the real point of the proposed joint debate between Harvard and Yale. It is not necessary in a debate that there be a formal decision in order to get all the advantages of a decision. A formal decision would really settle nothing. Every listener must inevitably decide in his own mind as to the merits, of the debaters and no ruling of judges could affect that decision. A formal decision could only add an unpleasant feature to the joint debate wishout bringing any distinct gain. Even what emphasis...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...
...engagement of A. B. Nichols '91, to Miss Gertrude Fuller, of Cambridge, has been announced...
...translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...