Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From this sketch some idea may be formed of the comfort and convenience which the Union affords. It seems to me that it is distinctly a step in advance of any thing that we have here, insomuch that it gives to virtually every one who can afford to pay the moderate fee of pound 1 a term (with no initiation fee), advantages offered by none of our institutions, except in part, and then to comparatively few. Having such a large revenue, the club is able to do more than any smaller association could attempt, in the way of enlarging...
...make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton is to figure conspicuously...
Such a book has been prepared by Messrs. King and Ivy; and already almost the whole edition of one thousand has been subscribed for. After a short sketch of the history and present state of the University, the book divides into two parts, and the first of these parts is called "A Walk through Harvard." Each hall in turn is fully described, and its interesting points noted...
...Ossip" thinks that our sketch of true independence shows that we are an example of the kind of independence he opposes. This we fully understand; but we beg to decline to meet him on his own ground of personalities. He says, further, that we twisted his words from their meaning and misconceived his aim. This we endeavored to avoid, and we believe, as regards the general spirit of his remarks, with success. Those errors which we may have committed were generally due to the obscurity of his meaning. None of them vitiated our defence of true independence. For example...
...Book, as assistant editor. The article on Harvard will be written by Professor James Barr Ames, of the Law School, and will discuss the recent reforms in college, and the application of university system to American instruction. At least seventy-five pages are to be devoted to the Harvard sketch, and the whole book will contain six hundred pages. November is fixed as the time of publication...