Word: persons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...claims the honor of having the oldest living graduate of an American college in the person of Dr. Kitchen of Philadelphia of the class...
LOST. - The person who took last night from Memorial a black coat not belonging to him, will oblige by leaving it with waiter at table 36, and he will receive his own coat in return...
...arts of recalling and speaking he said have been too much neglected of late. It is no credit to a person to speak well, but it is a disgrace...
...another kind of pictures were those representing battles, but these are, however few and are mostly semi-religious. The figure of a person floating in the air was still another kind of picture which was very popular, while the fondness of the Romans for outdoor scenes led them frequently to cover their walls with representations of every day life...
...today, however, the first signs of the reaction against individualism. Man is waking up to the realization that each person is only an atom in society and must find his place in its organism. With this thought noted in the minds of the people, mariage is secure, for it rests, not so much on the strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich...