Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FRIDAY.Lecture. Thackeray and Dickens - A Contrast. With Reading from the novels, and Brief Comment upon performances of "Bleak House," "Dombey and Son," and the "Holly Tree Inn." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...before us to have had the privilege of his personal acquaintance in the class room and chapel. Yet occasionally he has preached to us, and we have then felt the strength of his personality and shared his kind and sympathetic nature. On class day at the exercises around the tree his name has called forth the loudest cheers; and these have come from classes who have not known him personally. With all this popularity, was combined a feeling of reverence. We looked up to him as one of the links which bound us to the past of Harvard and inspired...
...Dartmouth seniors have chosen the following commencement committees: Executive, McKenzie, McLaren, Sanders; Finance, Abbott, Baker, Smith; Class Day, Miller, McKay, Redenbaugh; Music, Hawley, Cox, Aborn; Decoration, Dodge, Greely, Chandler; Printing, Pearson, Metcalf, Chandler; Tree, Flint, Jarvis, Martin...
...plot. Travel is represented by Mrs. Wiggin's sketches, "Penelope's English Experiences" which is also a continued story. Mrs. Wiggin treats of the English lodgings and her description of the English itemized bills are rather amusing. In this same class comes "Under the Far West Green wood Tree" and the English Cambridge in Winter." In the latter, by Albert G. Hyde, is given an excellent idea of the chapel services of the college and is well worth reading. "Feudal Chiefs of Acadia" by Francis Parkman and Dr. George E. Ellis' article on "Count Rumford" make up the history...
Last evening in Sever 11. Mr. Black delivered the second of his interesting course of lectures to a large audience. He began at the beginning of English Literature. likening its growth to that of a tree; and investigated when and where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings...