Word: words
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...charity subjects are cordially invited. The party will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Eastern avenue wharf in time to take the government steamer, "J. Putnam Bradise," which leaves from the north side of South Ferry at 2.15 p. m. Men who intend to go are requested to send word to M. Bloomfield, 35 1-2 Brattle street, Cambridge...
...stories in the present number are hardly as good as those in the last. "Duck-Shooting," a sketch by F. R. Dickinson, is an attempt at word painting. The plot of "A Stranger in a Strange House" by Roy Pier, is a familiar one and the writing seems rather mechanical in places. G. S. Franklin's story, "Was it an Hallucination?" is told in a convincing way and moves steadily from beginning to end. The best piece in the number is "Hank Peters' Code," by F. R. DuBois. Aside from being a clever character study, it shows a thorough knowledge...
...hoped that at least a thousand more men will sign them at once. Marshals and aides are requested to write the word "officer" against their names...
Environment is a long word, somewhat obscure in meaning, but it has a valuable place as indicating a way of looking at man that is characteristic of our time. The old idea of an absolute creation of all life in the world lost hold during the upheaval of the French Revolution; and it was a French student who first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully...
...glaciers; and remnants of them can still be seen in the low curving hills in some parts of the state. At the same time, it is worth remembering that we have near by all that is left of a mountain range, once as grand as any in the word, in the White Mountains and in detached peaks such as Monadnock...