Word: sir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...DEAR SIR. - Yale has decided to try to confine all her athletics to undergraduate students and in accordance with the determination I hereby offer to row the annual race with Harvard under the following specifications which are to be substituted for the first sentence in rule XXVI of the rules which at present govern the boat races between Harvard and Yale...
...December, 1579, there appeared a quarto volume of poetry entitled "The Shepherd's Calendar" and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. Edmond Spenser was twenty-seven years old and this was his first work. It was enthusiastically received and from that time dates the popularity of pastorals in England...
...born of a rich family, but in 1569 he went to Cambridge University, where he spent seven years. After that he lived in nothern England, where he fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned...
Garvin Douglass was another of these men. He translated Virgil and wrote a good many poems himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...
...COSMOPOLITAN.The Cosmopolitan begins with a frontispiece from one of Sir Frederick Leighton's most beautiful paintings. The Making of an Illustrated Magazine" is very properly placed first, for it surpasses in interest the other articles of the number. It is illustrated with many portraits and photographs. Gerald Campbell writes of "Four Famous Artists," Herbert Herkomer, George F. Watts, Sir Frederick Leighton and Sir John E. Millias, and there are some reproductions of their works and photographs of their studios...