Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...storm had its comical side. The loss of an umbrella or hat was of frequent occurrence. On Broadway, one woman of 200 pounds weight got caught in a drift. The frantic efforts of her escort to extricate her were without avail. Extra aid was summoned and after repeated attempts she was rescued and placed upon firm ground...
...under false pretences. He had given out that he was master of the trade of stringing pearls, but, when called upon to earn his living, said that the pearls he meant were the pearls of speech. The judge was pleased with the fellow's ingenuity, and, after urging the woman to submit to the will of her lord, dismissed the man with a present of money. In the eleventh the narrator sees the same rascal making a pious speech at a funeral, by which he manages to collect a considerable sum from the sorrowing relatives. In the last...
Nothing has been done to increase the attendance of women at Harvard since the time they were permitted to share the same instruction as that enjoyed by the young men of the University. When this measure was carried into effect it was supposed that a woman would be entitled to the same privileges as the other members of the University. This has been the case in every instance but one-that of pecuniary aid. Now recently, a movement has been started by the New York Local Committee attempting to raise a scholarship to help women through Harvard. Although the income...
...express. We hold a thorough mastery of the English language to be the one thing absolutely essential to the education of English speaking men, and we regard the literature of the English language as the one literature with which it is a shame for any educated man or woman to whom English is a mother tongue to be unfamiliar. We hold that a loving familiarity with our own literature is of much greater worth as education and cultivation than all else that the colleges teach or can teach, and we rejoice in the courage shown by Harvard College in laying...
...recalled by readers of the Monthly, gives increased evidence of his imaginative faculty and of his literary power in "The Fire-Maiden." The story of how a young student becomes interested in Socialism, then implicated in its worst form, and draws down in his ruin a noble but deluded woman, is in itself extraordinarily well done. But when we add to this the extraordinary turn which the narration takes in the course of the doctor's tale, in which we learn how the two victims of the infernal plot become also the victims of the theories of science and surgery...