Word: pall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...companion piece to the specimens of weird translations which we recently printed, we offer the following examples of grotesque learning, as shown on the part of our English cousins. They are given on the authority-of the Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, who writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "I can vouch for the boba-fides of the following, which I have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died...
...delegation of about twenty-five men went up to Hillsboro' to attend the services. The services were held in the Nethodist church. and a quartette from the glee club, consisting of Messrs. McCagg, Eliot, Thorndike and Easton, sang instead of the regular choir. The following class-mates acted as pall bearers : Coolidge, Fletcher, Keep, A. Hamlin, F. Hamlin, F. W. Holmes, W. S. Barnes and Carl Bean. Among the floral tributes were several of great beauty. The class of '84 sent a large wreath of white roses and purple violets ; the Pi Eta society a large design representing the club...
...majority, (100 to 46), its application was limited to a capricious selection of subjects, and was hampered by sundry restrictions. We are glad, however, to learn from the Warden of Merton's speech that the promoters will not be content until they have won "complete academical equality" for women. [Pall Mall...
...distinguished biblical scholars, Bishop Lightfoot and Canon Westcott. Though of necessity containing many of the lights of English Literature this "forty " is by no means representative, containing as it does the names of so many second rate writers. A full list of the "forty" is given in the Pall Mall Budget for November...
...Pall Mall Gazette says: "One of the greatest mathematicians of our time is a lady of one of the highest Russian families, Mme. Kovaleffski, the well-known Russian naturalist. She took the doctor's degree in 1874 at Gottingen, and is said to be enthusiastically devoted to her profession...