Word: space
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience of about fifty listened to Mr. Pellew's Bowdoin prize essay on "Jane Austen and her Works" last night. Mr. Pellew gave a hasty sketch of Miss Austen's life with comments on her novels. He devoted considerable space to the influence which shaped her style and to the relation she bore to the other novelists of her time. The essay was listened to with interest throughout...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will you kindly allow me a space in your columns to make a few remarks concerning class lives? The blanks which I am di-tributing are of such a formidable and discouraging size that men are deterred even from an attempt to fill them out. The following set of questions may therefore be of some assistance as a guide for what is required...
...school, has been resolved upon by the society ever since its organization. But the present unsettled condition of its finances does not allow any more extended arrangements than the ones already entered into. An annual income of six thousand dollars has been assured the school for the space of ten years. But as yet the absence of a permanent capital has clogged the workings to a slight degree. Under the circumstances it is a matter of congratulation that the society have succeeded as well as they have. It is a well known fact that the English have endeavored to establish...
...dogmatic, and to be prone to wrath whenever he does encounter opposition. The reviewer then objects to Prof. Sumner because "he has set himself the task of proving that an opinion generally entertained upon both sides of the Atlantic during all past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended review of this forty-page volume. As an instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from...
...large float is being chopped out of the ice and will not be in position before next week. Until then the available space in the '83 and '84 boat-house will be somewhat crowded...