Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Nichol of Glasgow University has in the press a work on American literature, which, in the form of an historical sketch, will bring under review the writers of America from the colonial period down to the present time...
Theme II. will be due from both divisions Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 2 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. An account of the Monsoons in India. 2. American English. 3. Sketch of Richard Cobden. 4. The Political Career of General Butler. 5. What relation should exist between Amateur and Professional Athletics? 6. Dinners and Dining...
...gives the following sketch of Dr. Everett, who preached at Cornell last Sunday: "The Rev. Wm. Everett is a son of Edward Everett, and is said to inherit a very large share of his father's genius. Having distinguished himself at Harvard as one of the finest Greek scholars ever graduated from that university, he went to England and continued his studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme II. will be due from both divisions Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 2 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. An account of the Monsoons in India. 2. American English. 3. Sketch of Richard Cobden. 4. The Political Career of General Butler. 5. What relation should exist between Amateur and Professional Athletics? 6. Dinners and Dining...
...interesting article upon "Co-operation at Harvard" appeared in yesterday's Advertiser. The writer begins with a sketch of its organization last March and its subsequent growth and success. Its plan is fully explained. Chances for failure are fully discussed and admitted to be great. Of special interest to our readers, however, is his explanation of the practical workings and systems of checks of its order system...