Word: roger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Roger Wolcott Boston...
Judges: On literary philosophical and historical subjects - Messrs. T. W. Higginson, Roger Wolcott and Dr. Royce; on classical subjects and translations - Rev. Dr. J. H. Thayer. Prof. J. B. Sewall and Prof. Dyer; on scientific subjects - Mr. Alexander Agassiz. Prof. Shaler, Prof. E. H. Dolbear and Mr. Edward Burgess...
...Roger has been elected president of the French Senate, vice M. Leon Say, appointed minister of finance...
...desk. As near as could be gathered his lecture was taken up with a review of Addison, the author's mode of criticism as shown in the "Spectator," an attempt to trace its effects in the German school. Part of the lecture was occupied in readings from "Sir Roger de Coverley." Those who had read Sir Roger recognize and appreciate Mr. Perry's efforts to bring out the "delicate touches" of the work. The effect on subsequent English writers, the success of the works from a financial standpoint, both were discussed with much spirit. The subsequent works, the outgrowth...
...stands the maiden who will bid me rest my weary limbs in her father's palatial halls?" She replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started for the street. He seized. The remnants of my trousers I wore home under a friend's ulster...