Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...COURSE of University lectures is to be given this year by Professor Bocher, and it is probable that Mr. C. C. Perkins will also deliver a course. The lectures of Professor Bocher will be in French, and are to be on Moliere and French Comedy in the Seventeenth Century. They will begin at twelve o'clock, Saturday, November the fourteenth, at U. 16, and will be given at that place and time every week through the rest of the academic year. The fee for the course will be fifteen dollars, to be paid at the Steward's office...
...shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that he was born of a half-breed and a Mexican cattle-thief, sir. Until his seventeenth year, he never saw a book, sir, nor a page, nor a line, sir. He was brought up in the deepest dirt, sir, and degradation, sir." Could Mr. Bounderby himself have said more? Here was a poet in a strange shape, indeed. His origin was none of the best...