Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MR. WINSOR'S first annual report as Librarian of Harvard University has been printed. Mr. Winsor discusses the subject of catalogues, and speaks of the improvement of the Library bulletin, of the growth of the Library, and of the work done by the Library service. He recommends that some arrangement be made for the use of the reading-room in the evening...
...number of gentlemen desiring to study and practise Vocal Music warrants the formation of two classes for beginners, one meeting at 3.30, and the other at 4.30, on Thursday afternoons, at Boylston Hall. Gentlemen may therefore come at either of these two hours. Mr. Carey will also form a class for practice in part singing by those who read music, at 2.30 on the same day, provided there is a sufficient number of tenors to make it practicable. Terms, $ 3.00, for the remainder of the Academic year...
...worthy parents saw signs of genius from the day of his birth, and his education was soon begun. Old Mr. Brown, as excellent and wise as he was ambitious, placed the little George at one of the many and venerable Alma Maters with which the stony fields of New England have ever teemed, where he received a first-rate training. Yet he was as a youth backward, and only after repeated failures did he succeed in entering Harvard College at the rather late age of nine years and six months...
...family had not exclaimed more than a thousand times, "Why, Fred, how you've changed! I 'd hardly know you!" my younger brother had only just succeeded in smashing my first cane, when word was brought that, "Your father would like to see you in the study, Mr. Fred...
...memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or the theory of government. I have always had a great reverence for this imaginary personage, whom I think as badly treated as was the famous Mr. Blank, mentioned in the Spectator...