Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than ordinary merit. Among its editors who have since attained eminence were Nathan Hale, Jr., Rufus King, and James Russell Lowell, all of the class of 1838. An amusing feature of the magazine was the publication of extracts from rejected manuscripts under the title of "Shyllyoliana," The paper always led a rather dubious existence and, after the publication of the fourth volume, lack of support caused its suspension and death...
Prof. Shaler, in his paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...
...March number of the "Atlantic Monthly" offers a table of contents to its readers which for high literary excellence is unexcelled. There are presented: A poem, "Fancy or Fact," by James Russell Lowell; a paper, "Our Hundred Days in Europe," by Oliver Wendell Holmes; and an article by Horace Scudder on "Longfellow's Art." "The Second Son" is continued, and Marion Crawford offers three new chapters of "Paul Platoff." Mr. Bliss Carman, a special student at Harvard, writes a pleasing poem, and there is a satisfactory review of the new novel, "Agnes Surriage." On the whole, the number...
...most popular and most widely circulated paper in NEW ENGLAND. Its columns are eagerly perused by thousands of readers; and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is one of the features of New England, bright, fearless and independent, and is sold everywhere; as an advertising medium the HERALD is second to none, and advertisers will attain their object more speedily and more efficiently in its columns than in those of any other Boston paper...
...Fletcher's paper on "Poe, Hawthorne and Morality." is interesting, and his stand is well taken - that Hawthorne is the truly moral writer of the two - but as a whole the paper is uneven in strength...