Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Proper...
Professor Marsh delivered his second lecture on the beginnings of modern poetry in Sever 11 last evening, A week ago, he spoke on the poetry of Provence; last evening. on the poetry of France proper. Both Provence and France had partaken of the civilizations of Greece and Rome, but France did not completely fall under their influence. Then, under Chalemagne, the interest in literature was once more awakened, the new culture showed itself independent of the old, and was so much the fresher and more original than the Provencial poetry...
...spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased to the proper proportions, seems a needlessly long time and there ought to be some quicker and equally advantageous way of bringing about the same results. If, as it is stated, there are now sufficient funds to erect the building and even to cover the cost of its care, why should we not hasten...
...Joll's barber shop, over Claflin's drug store in the squre. We cannot tell when we shall receive our first returns but they will be cast upon the screen as fast as they come till the final one is received. Since we have made formal arrangements with the proper authorites our returns will be official and correct; and as they come from New York through Boston they will be the same as those received by Boston papers...
...Proper election would improve the character of the Senate: - (a) At present able Senators are obliged to resort to jobbery to reelection; e. g. Sherman of Ohio in 1891. (b) Popular election would stop this jobbery by removing election from control of the machine...