Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vernon is sacred so do we desire to save this the nation's other Mecca, thereby repudiating the oft repeated aphorism, "Republics are ungrateful...
...recent meeting of the senior class of Yale last evening H. W. Wells was elected class orator, T. W. Buchanan, class poet, and W. W. Ames, statistician, Messrs. Barstow, McMahon, Platt, Sherrill and Vernon were elected class historians...
Second round doubles-Campbell and Hall (Columbia) vs. Chase and Tailer (Harvard), 6-4, 6-4; Sears and Shaw vs. Vernon and Johnson (Princeton...
...entirely free from that looseness so common in short stories which allows him to see the end when he has scarcely begun. The bits of description are delicate, and the treatment is, in the main, original. The writer shows power of observation particularly in the character of May Vernon. One who is familiar with a country church and its ways will be keenly interested in the story of "The Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country...
...lecture given last night at 61 Mt. Vernon street, Boston, by Mr. Richard Hodgson, consisted mainly of extracts from unpublished accounts of apparitions drawn from English sources. The visual phantasms of sane persons are divided into two classes-those of the living and those of the dead. Under the head of phantasms of the living are included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because...