Word: richards
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...meeting the following men were elected members of the club: Resident - V. S. Rothschild '91, Louis Hicks '87, Charles J. Oakes '90, John Mead Howells '91, Regis H. Post '91; Thomas Sim Lee '91, James Parrish Lee '91, Charles A. Peabody L. S., '39, non-resident - Charles Copeland 89, Richard Jones '90, Hugh L. Bond '80, and Charles F. T. Beall...
...game seems to have had enemies at almost every stage of its progress. Edward Third prohibited it in 1365, simply, however, because it interfered with his archery. Richard Second also stopped it, but later kings found it best not to. Its growing popularity was nevertheless disagreeable to many people and in the seventeenth century Sir Thomas Mildman writes: "In likewise foote ball is too utterly abjected of all noble men, wherein is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence, whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes...
Another article of unusual interest is an essay on Richard III. by the late James Russell Lowell, which is but another evidence of the great loss American letters sustained in Mr. Lowell's death. This essay, it will be remembered, was read some years ago at Chicago, but has never before been printed. It is written in Mr. Lowell's incomparable style and is unusually valuable for the student of Shakspere...
Another interesting paper is one on "Joseph Severn and his Correspondents." The correspondents are Richard Westmacott, the painter, George Richmond, the painter, and others; but the most interesting letter of the series is from John Ruskin, giving his first impressions of Venice. One quotation is characteristic and not without truth: "I saw," says Mr. Ruskin, "what the world is coming to. We shall put it into a chain armor of railroad, and then everybody will go everywhere every day, until every place is like every other place; and then when they are tired of changing stations and police they will...
Professor John Phelps Taylor of Andover has charge of the fund; and the committee to co-operate with him are: from the class of 1840. Hon. Philip H. Sears; 1841, Sereno D. Nickerson; 1845, Charles W. Seabury; 1846, Richard H. Stearns; 1847, J. Garener, Tewksbury; 1848, J. M. Rodocanachi; 1850, R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 1852, Hon. A. B. Coffin; 1852, Moses Merill, Ph. D.; 1854, Samuel W. Abbott, M. D., 1856 Charles E. Inches; 1857, Charles Storrow; 1864, Robert L. Means; 1870, Col. G. H. Campbell; 1875, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton...