Word: novel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection with the university, of a community instructively representative of attractive and wholesome conditions of social and domestic life. The design of the building now in progress is a novel one. There is a central quadrangle, its four sides formed by a continuous arcade of stone, 18 feet high, 20 deep and 1700 long. Opening from the arcade are to be a series of structures for class rooms, lecture rooms, draughting rooms and rooms for scientific investigation and instruction. These...
...novel feature in the Paris Exposition of 1889 will be an exhibit of all methods and details relating to the institutions for the higher education of men and women in America. Mr. C. Wellman Parks, Professor of Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., has kindly consented to take charge of this section of the exhibit and has sent circulars to the various American colleges soliciting their co-operation. The part in which Professor Parks begs the students to assist him most is in collecting as many photographs of buildings, faculties, classes, athletic teams, literary societies, etc., as possible...
...building up a large business through the principal cities of the west. Mr. Dunne has had uniform success with his patrons here at Harvard and has established a reputation which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand for exclusive and novel goods...
...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
...Darling contributes a short review of Mrs. Ward's "Robert Elsmere," and presents an estimate of the value of the novel. The article makes no pretense of being a criticism but it will be interesting to those who have not yet read the work, inasmuch as it is a clear exposition of the incidents, the characters and the motive of the story...