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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE fifty-four colleges in the New England States, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, conferred 182 honorary degrees, and 2,333 in course, - making a total of 2,515. Of these, Harvard conferred 219 in course.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

After the Chapel, spreads, dancing, and music on the Green. The number of promenaders was at no time in the afternoon very great, for our poor elms had become prey for the worms many weeks before, and could no longer offer the cool shade they fain would have given the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS-DAY. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

THE last works of an author so prolific as Bulwer are often repetitions in part of former ones, and, even if they lose nothing in freshness and originality, they are likely to embody some fanciful theory or a leaning towards sentimentality in one form or another, - to be pervaded throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

MY friend Skiapous is not a man who courts publicity, but such is his nature that it is thrust upon him. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." This is a remark which was on one occasion made by W. Shakespeare, who has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIAPOUS. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

Those who know him, while they appreciate, as far as in them lies, all these soaring thoughts and lofty aspirations in Skiapous, are none the less inclined to regard him as a failure. For they are aware that he refuses the advantages which his largeness of foot gives him, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIAPOUS. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

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