Word: presses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. G. H. Palmer's translation of the first twelve books of the Odyssey is now in press...
...lull in the exercises the general development prizes were awarded for the year 1883-84. They were presented throug the H. A. A. by anonymous donor. Made of beaten silver, two pitchers and a goblet, of the heaviest plate, they attracted general notice as they stood on the press table during the afternoon. There were 73 contestants and J. C. Adams '87 won the first, having made an improvement of 261 3-10: J. W. Dudley, '87, second, 244 5-10; R. Briggs, '87, third...
...Rosecrans' order the army now retired into Bhattanooga. Bragg advancing occupied the surrounding heights across the river. These were Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob, and Lookout Mountain. So close upon the town did he press that communication with nashville was about cut off and semi-starvation troubled the troops in the beleagured town. Better times, however, were close at hand. Grant
...currently reported by the press that a "certain Western editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change...
Houghton. Mifflin and Co., announce the following books in press by Harvard men: "Studies in History," by Henry Cabot Lodge; "John Adams," (Statesmen series) by John T. Morse, Jr.; and a translation, with additions and an index of Ploetz's "Epitome of Ancient, Medialval and Modern History," by Wm. H. Tillinghast...