Word: tristram
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...Copeland will read from "Tristram Shandy" and "The Newcomes" next Wednesday evening, in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock. He will also speak of Sir Roger de Coverley, Colonel Newcome, and other literary descendants of Don Quixete...
...Bowdoin prizes for English dissertations by graduates and undergraduates have been awarded as follows: graduate prize of $300 to H.A. Miller L.'02, for an essay entitled "Comparative Psychology of the Negro;" first undergraduate prize of $250 to W.H.L. Bell '04, for an essay entitled "The Tristram Legend in the Nineteenth Century;" second undergraduate prize of $200 to E.A. Hecker '05, for an essay entitled "English Grammar Schools." The prizes for Greek and Latin dissertations will be announced later...
...this scene is greatly obscured from the fact that the author condenses; his story throughout. The names of persons also show great divergence and are thus of the utmost importance in a discussion. Now we turn to the story itself, which in a general character, resembles that of Thomas' "Tristram." In both we find the device of dreams employed, but in "Horn and Rimenhild," no marvels appear, and the story is strictly in accordance with what actually happened in Ireland at that time. This story became literature in Anglo Saxon, in metrical version, certainly before the Norman conquest...
...Elijah." At an extra session in the evening, Professor E. S. Sheldon, president of the association, delivered the presidential address on the subject, "Practical Philology." On Friday Dr. W. H. Schofield and Mr. P. C. Hoyt read papers treating of the home of King Harn and of Sir Tristram, and reached the conclusion that both were probably born on the Isle...
...Copeland will read selections from the works of Defoe, fielding, Smollett and Sterne. Among the selections will be the description of Crusoe's first sight of the man Friday from "Robinson Crusoe," the account of Partridge at the play from "Tom Jones," the death of Lefevre from "Tristram Shandy" and Thackeray's criticism of Smollst in the "English Humorists" series...