Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Deniel Pratt will lecture on "Human AEstheticism" this evening, at 581 Washington street. The general says he can knock Oscar "higher than a kite...
...perfect ideal of aestheticism that he had yet seen in America. "This chawming creature," said he, "in both spirit and dress is the very daisy of idyllity." The reporter expressed a great yearning to know the name of this fortunate being. He was told that it is Dan'l Pratt - "Not Daniel," said Oscar, "but simplistically beautiful Dan'l." Immediately our reporter excused himself, and after examining the guest-book, the chief of police and several other Boston dignitaries, he found that Mr. Pratt was actually staying at the Vendome - his room was up pretty high, to be sure...
Even Daniel Pratt seems to have forsaken us in our misery of the mid-years. This is one less pang to our griefs...
Recently we had the pleasure of seeing a new photograph of our genial friend, Daniel Pratt. He stands with one hand resting on a terrestrial globe, and the other extended in the familiar gesture which he employs in his great lecture on "Bell's" Lettres...
...dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says that John Pratt, D. D., first president of the Dennison University, died yesterday...