Word: vane
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is dedicated to Thomas Sergeant Perry, Professor of English Literature in the Keio Gijuku at Tokyo. The book contains fourteen articles, some of them addresses and others reviews. Among the subjects treated are the following: "Cambridge as Village and City," "Francis Parkman," "Sir Harry Vane," and "The Bacon-Shakespeare Folly...
...Alley, Jr., M. T. Hall and I. W. Scott, with W. E. Stillwell as alternate. The Sophomore speakers, who will defend the negative are B. Brooks, A. L. Richards and O. D. Evans, with E. E. Sargent as alternate. The judges will be Professor S. M. Mac Vane, Mr. Richard Cobb and Mr. H. L. Prescott. W. E. Hutton 3L., will preside...
...HUMANITY."- The Columbia Theatre, Boston, will have Sutton Vane's most successful melodrama entitled "Humanity" for its attraction next week, with usual matinees, Wednesday and Saturday. The play is one of Wm. A. Brady's most successful attractions and will be put on with the same splendidly equipped company, as when seen at this popular play house last season. The latest stage effects and the highest spectacular results of modern scenic art will again be displayed. With true love that runs roughly for its theme, and war, murder, bomb explosion, broadsword combat, fox hunting with English thoroughbreds and fox hounds...
...Howe, instructor of the blind. Bulfinch, the architect, and Peirce, the mathematician, went to Harvard; Agassiz fitted at several Continental universities. Franklin, Bowditch, the navigator, and Putnam, the settler of the Northwest, had no college education. Five of the original colonists - Winthrop, Carver, Endicott, Bradford and Vane - are appropriately remembered; the first studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the last at Oxford...
...Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce, and Bulfinch; Bowdoin has three - Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Andrew; Dartmouth two - Webster and Choate; Yale two - Edwards and Morse; Brown two - Mann and Howe; Oxford, Dublin, and Munich have one each - Vane, Winthrop, and Agassiz, respectively...