Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The late Prof. Henry Smith, of Oxford, was so unwilling to inflict pain that he even hesitated to find fault with lazy and stupid pupils. On one occasion two undergraduates of his college brought him their exercises for correction. To the first he merely said, "Thank you, Mr. A., that...
Gov. Butler attended the meeting of the Saturday Night Club of New York last Saturday. After the banquet Judge Stanley Matthews made a brief and witty speech in which he suggested that Harvard College, instead of bestowing the customary degree of LL. D. upon Governor Butler should dub him D...
It is reported that the Anarchist documents seized at Brussels show that a plot has been organized to murder the Czar of Russia on the occasion of his coronation in May.
A poem written for the occasion by W. W. Story, the artist, was read, as was also a sonnet by Hon. Thedore Lyman and a travestied translation of Horace by Dr. John O. Sargent. Speeches followed by the Hon. Carl Schurz, Judge Addison Brown, Francis M. Weld, Prof. J. M...
In the descents on the patent fire-escapes the only thing that seemed to detract from the solemnity of the occasion was the frantic clutchings and clawings of the air by the unfortunate victims of the experiments. We may add that Mr. Knapp proposes to have an exhibition of other...