Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sir: Apropos of your editorial remark upon Prof. Palmer's answer to his critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter...
...rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage in Aristotle "stump" a whole class in Berlin University, until it came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew how to teach Greek!" And that is beginning to be the world's comment: "We do not hear much of the University of Pennsylvania, but when it does...
...divided the lecture into three parts and spoke of the historical Novel, which received its first impulse from the work of Sir Walter Scott; the novel treating of social relations; and the Novellette...
...Books, - Craddock: In the Clouds; Gladden: Applied Christianity; Phelps: Madonna of the Tubs; Bacon: Dictionary of Boston; Agassiz: Geological Sketches; Dr. Williams: Our Eyes; New Series of Dr. Brooks' Sermons; Some Essays of Elia (new form); J. Shorthouse: Sir Percival; Brandes: Eminent Authors of the 19th Century; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; From London Spectator: Days with Sir Roger de Coverly. Songs of Harvard, (new) 75 cents...
...Books, - Craddock: In the Clouds; Gladden: Applied Christianity; Phelps: Madonna of the Tubs; Bacon: Dictionary of Boston; Agassiz: Geological Sketches; Dr. Williams: Our Eyes; New Series of Dr. Brooks' Sermons; Some Essays of Elia (new form); J. Shorthouse: Sir Percival; Brandes: Eminent Authors of the 19th Century; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; From London Spectator: Days with Sir Roger de Coverly...