Word: token
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them trip together delightfully; only, what do they mean?" Irresistibly the mind of the Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss...
...members of the five classes mentioned and though a large sum of money was raised, it would not ordinarily be sufficient to pay the price for a work of this sort. The raising of an additional amount has been made unnecessary through the generosity of Mr. Tarbell, who in token of his esteem for Dean Briggs and his respect for the University has consented to undertake the work for the sum raised...
...said that there will be no dramatic criticism worthy of the name in America until we have a drama equally worthy. It has become a byword that the dramatic-courses at Cambridge are accomplishing one of these ends; and this piece of criticism signed "C. B." is an encouraging token that the critical faculty is finding its development side by side with the creative. Later in the number Richard Dana Skinner writes of "Les Fauves" with refreshing intelligence and good sense; for without shutting the door of his sympathies against the newest vagaries of the French painters, he contrives...
...class of 1886 of Harvard College at this the twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation, offers to the University a gift as a token of the loving respect of the class and as a sign of its abiding faith in the efforts of the officers and teachers of the University in behalf of education, citizenship and character...
...presented to the University. Last June when Professor Palmer had been a teacher at Harvard for 40 years, a committee of 27 of his former pupils of which Professor C. M. Backewell, of Yale, was chairman, decided to have the portrait painted as a tribute to him and a token of their deep appreciation of his work. The portrait, which was painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson '91, is now in the Trophy Room. It will be put on exhibition in the Union soon and will eventually be hung in the Faculty Room...