Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dangerous illness of Mrs. Herford at the time. When urged not to feel obliged to hold too strictly to the duties of university pastor during the most serious part of his wife's illness his reply was, "I like to leave a clean edge to my work." The remark deserves to be cherished by every Harvard man as a guiding principle in the performance of his own work...
Considered as a story, "A Benevolent Murder" lacks climax; as a sketch, it is fairly excellent and shows some originality of treatment, although the concluding remark of the doctor is trite and out of place...
...looks out upon the broad expanse of life with its wonderful activity and its astonishing achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with...
...with the century-old myth concerning the alleged relations between the two great commanders. Mr. Conway comes to the conclusion that so far from Frederick the Great having given Washington a sword, no gift was ever sent by him to the American general, and "he never recognized in any remark the greatness of Washington." The fiction of the number is very diversified, includiug a new installment of Dr. Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly, Richard Harding Davis; the conclusion of Hopkinson Smith's "Colonel Carter of Cartersville...
...city, passing through that part of the city containing University, Brazenose, St. Mary's, Queen's and New College. Some charming views were shown of St. Mary's Chapel, and its quaint door way flanked by two twisted pillars. A view of the Bodleian Library drew forth the remark from Professor Cooke that it was his ideal library where the rooms were low and the books within easy reach...