Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MR. E. H. HERRICK, '77, came in second in the one-hundred-yard dash at the Intercollegiate contests. The winning time was 10 1/2 seconds, and Mr. Herrick came in three tenths of a second later...
...WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and we presume that time will also cause the Courant writer to be ashamed of having written a tirade which, while it convinces no one, can harm only the one who wrote...
Every man of catholic literary taste admires the classics; the masterpieces of Italian literature are worth a careful perusal; and Mr. Lowell always expressed a great admiration for the genius of Cervantes; and of course there are profundity of thought, poetic beauty, and felicity of description in French and German authors as well as in our own tongue. This country as yet has no class of regular litterateurs, as Paris and London have; but it is probable that, with the growth of the country, such a class is rapidly growing. Our College has in the past sent forth more eminent...
...Mr. Sibley's resignation of the office of Librarian, in consequence of his failing eye-sight, the position, hardly expecting that it would be accepted, was offered Mr. Justin Winsor, who for nearly ten years has been the able and efficient Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Of the subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time...
...Mr. Winsor's record in the Boston Library has been faultless, and the whole management, while under his care, has been a marvel of correctness, exactness, and faithfulness. At the age of eighteen, we are told, he wrote the history of the town of Duxbury; entered this College in the class of '53, but for some reason left at the end of the Sophomore year, and went to Europe, where he remained for three years. His degree was given him in '68. Returning from Europe, he settled in Boston; was elected Trustee of the Boston Library, and was called upon...