Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first woman to enter the U. of P. Law School has just been matriculated...
...Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood in the time of Christ...
Miss Florence Bascom of Williamstown, Mass. will be the first woman to obtain a degree from Johns Hopkins. She will receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy next June. This will be the fifth degree she has received from various colleges...
...musical, as the voice of the ocean, or as the sound of the wind in the pine-trees, is musical. There is given a short criticism of Tennyson's work. There are three points on which the poet's message to men is clearest, the relation of man to woman, the relation of man to his country, and the relation of man to humanity. The author makes these points very clear and leaves us with the impression that Tennyson's poetry is a beautiful expression of a deep and noble character. "The Cosmopolis City Club," begun in the January Century...
...teaching. Here as in others of his plays, he takes up the humors of the times, as he calls them and satirizes them most vehemently. This continued till he had almost everybody against him. In King James' reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against the mania for speculation...