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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lyric Poems of Sir Philip Sidney...
...call attention to the opportunity offered us by the subscription-list now at the University Bookstore, to contribute to the Memorial to Sir Walter Scott about to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Scott has probably given more wholesome pleasure to people who love reading than has any other writer of modern times. That he has not yet been given his place in the Abbey, which already contains memorials to Longfellow and to Lowell, is an accident hard to explain. The circumtances of the memorial now proposed are such that very small subscriptions are more to be desired than large ones...
...England drove the Cavaliers to Virginia. In 1649 a party of more than 300 of these fugitive royalists, belonging to the very best class of people, came to Virginia. These Cavaliers made the reputation of Virginia, and from them many of our most distinguished families have traced their descent. Sir William Berkeley, a Royalist of the Royalists, was elected governor. After the Restoration his government became tyrannical in the extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having...
Seminary of Economics. Sir Robert Giffen on Prices in Relation to Material Progress in England. Mr. F. Atherton. University...
Seminary of Economics. Sir Robert Giffen on Prices in Relation to Material Progress in England. Mr. F. Atherton. University...