Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...generally understood at Washington that Mr. Henry Adams, a Harvard graduate, son of Charles Francis Adams, wrote "Democracy," the much discussed novel...
FEBRUARY 24. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Professor J. W. Churchill, of Andover Theological Seminary, 7.30 P. M. "He that overcometh shall be my Son...
...sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some four or five millions to the same college, are recent cases in point. Another remarkable instance of the same sort is the recent distribution by will of some hundreds of thousands of dollars among various smaller colleges...
...success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant." The plot of the opera is nearly the same as that of Tennyson's poem, and may be briefly described as follows: Prince Hilarion, the son of King Hildebrand, has been betrothed in boyhood to the Princess Ida, the only daughter of Gama, a neighboring monarch. When the Prince is of age, King Hildebrand sends to Gama and claims his daughter's hand for his son. King Gama replies that he would be only too happy...
...outline figure drawings. But no matter how small or trivial the same expressiveness remains as of old. Every Irishman is about to break out into his native brogue and Matthew Arnold, true to life, stands hesitatingly scanning his lecture notes. Well may the Lampoon be proud of her great son; but Mr. Atwood can better be called the father of Lampy...