Word: ticknor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...received at the library. Some are bought with fine money, many are given, but the greater portion are purchased with the income of the various bequests left to the University for buying books. The only American publishing house which regularly presents the library with its publications is that of Ticknor and Co., of Boston. Useful works of other houses are purchased at the request of instructors and those connected officially with the library. Among the most recent acquisitions is an assortment of books in French, chiefly on educational and historical subjects. A large box of German books was received...
...Ticknor and Co. have published recently a volume of selections from William Morris's poems entitled Atalanta's Race and Other Lules from The Earthly Paradise. The little volume is edited by Oscar Fay Adams, well known in literary circles both in and out of Cambridge, with the assistance of Prof, William J. Rolfe, the Shakespearian scholar. The book is mainly designed for young students of English literature, who, lacking time for an exhaustive study, are still desirous of becoming familiar with William Morris's work. Mr. Adams's selection of poems seems to be a very happy...
...organization of the Harvard Union dates from the year. 1832. The first president of the society was George Ticknor Curtis and Francis Bowen its first secretary. The question first proposed for debate was "Are our republican institutions destined to be permanent?" The slavery and tariff questions were frequently brought before the Union and the records show that the society was then in favor of protection. As early as this the system of elective studies was advocated by the majority of the members. James Russel Lowell, Edward Everett Hale and E. Rock wood Hoar are names to be found...
Among the April books, one that is sure to attract much attention is the "Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sports," by John Boyle O'Reilly, to be published by Ticknor and Co. Mr. O'Reilly has long been recognized as an authority on manly sports, and this book is said to bear the stamp of the hand of one thoroughly conversant with the subject. No one could set forth more spiritedly or more persuasively the ethical side of boxing than Mr. O'Reilly.- University...
...Harvard Reminiscences. By Andrew P. Peabody. Boston: Ticknor and Co. 16mo...