Word: sented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers who have found him a wise, faithful and generous friend...
...Dickens sent Mr. Fields a bit of the 'Uncommercial Traveller,' selected, it is likely enough, by that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha...
...there has been a discouragingly small response to the blank cards sent out by the Dance Committee. In order to make this year's Junior Dance a success, it is essential that all members of the class of 1917 who have not already done so should send in their cards and checks today. Any member of the social class of 1917 who were over-looked in distributing the circulars should apply for a blank card at once. All invitation cards with checks for the required amount should be sent to H. B. Courteen '17, Harvard Union. Checks should be made...
...year oral examinations for those members of the college who have notified the recorder of their intention to take them, will begin this afternoon. Notices have been sent to these men, stating the place and time of their examinations...
Very few applications for the Junior Dance have been sent in so far. All members of 1917 are reminded that they must fill these out and send them to H. B. Courteen '17, Harvard Union, by tomorrow evening...