Word: paper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...happens fiction is not otherwise represented in this number unless one includes Elizabeth Bellamy's clever sketch of negro life, called "Mom Cely's Wonderful Luck." Edward Everett Hale's first paper on "My College Days" is written with much brightness, and gives an interesting account of Harvard College in the days of President Quincy, abounding in reminiscences of well-known students and professors. Another paper of reminiscent interest is a charming essay by Mr. H. C. Merwin, "On Growing Old;" while Dr. William Henry Furness offers some "Random Reminiscences of Emerson," which throw new light on the personality...
...biographical papers there are Captain A. T. Mahan's sketch of "Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent," and John Foster Kirk's "An English Family in the Seventeenth Century," - the family in question being the Verneys, and the papers being based on the memoirs of the Verney family during the English civil war. An interesting unsigned paper, also based on a volume of memoirs, is entitled "A Great Lady of the French Restoration," - Madame de Gontaut...
...paper by Havelock Ellis, on "The Ancestry of Genius;" "Persian Poetry." by Sir Edward Strachey; and the extremely picturesque and pathetic sketch of the life of a Japanese dancing girl, written by Lafcadio Hearn, complete the more notable contents of the number. A paper on "Words," by Agnes Repplier, however, should not be forgotten by those who have enjoyed this clever woman's essays in past numbers of the magazine...
...Forum VIII, 224-236 (Nov., 1889); Atlantic Monthly, LXV, 178-186 (Feb., 1890); Wharton, Digest of the International Law of the U. S. pp. 26-32, 300-308, 327; U. S. Documents Behring Sea, 2 vols. (correspondence); Robert Rayner, Answer to the Hon. E. J. Phelps's Paper on the Behring Sea Controversy...
...first college paper ever printed in the United States came into existence at Dartmouth College in 1800, with Daniel Webster as editor-in chief...