Word: window
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Black then read some reminiscences of Edinburgh University by J. M. Barrie, and Robert Louis Stevenson; and extracts from "The Stickett Minister," and "Why David Oliphant Remained in the Faith of his Fathers," by S. L. Crockett," and "A Window in Thrums," by J. M. Barrie...
...imagined that he was soon to acquire a world wide reputation as an author. He was a quiet fellow and good at his studies. After leaving college he went into journalism from which he finally branched off as an author. In 1889 he published his best known work, "A Window in Thrums," and in 1892, "A Little Minister," and this last named book is the last work that Barrie has written. All the shorter stories which have been published recently in America were written before when he was still a journalist...
...Black then read a few of Barrie's sketches of the Edinburgh University professors, and extracts from "Shutting a Map," "My Tobacco Pouch," and "A Window in Thrums...
...From a Graduate's Window" contains the suggestion that the pictures now on the walls of Memorial be removed to the new art museum when that building is completed. The idea is taken from an imaginary conversation of the characters represented by the portraits, who put their dignity aside when left alone on moonlight nights...
Notice has been posted in Leavitt and Peirce's window for a day or two to the effect that not enough money has been subscribed by the freshmen to send their team to New Haven today. The simple fact is that unless the class comes forward with two hundred dollars before nine o'clock this morning the team cannot leave Cambridge. The trouble always comes up in connection with freshman teams but up to this time every class has met the demands made upon it and at the last minute the teams have found the means to go. Ninety-seven...