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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend" is the title of a book just published by Professor Charles Eliot Norton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/13/1899 | See Source »

Very different is Edward Richard's tale of the Franco-Prussian War, a straight-forward, vigorous story, with a refreshing roughness about it. "Pursuit," by W. Stevens '01, and "A Friend's Privileges," by Lewis D. Humphrey '01, are of the daily theme type. The most interesting contribution to the number is a short and "chatty" tale, "My Uncle, the Ghost," by A. H. Gilbert '01. It contains a touch of wit, which is rarely found in the Advocate's stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate | 10/21/1899 | See Source »

...life. "His Duty to His Country," by W. R. Castle 1900, is exceedingly timely and very much to the point in plot, for there must be some men who have other motives for enlisting at present than their duty to their country alone. "A Birthday Telegram," by A. S. Friend 1900, and "From Him That Hath Not," by H. M. Adams '98, are pathetic little tales, the latter a particularly delicate sketch. "Facilis Descensus Averno," by M. Seasongood 1900, is slight but amusing. The poems are all short, with the exception of one entitled "The Burial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 6/7/1898 | See Source »

...Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which passed in Eyre's house; his coming to be mayor of London, Lacy's getting his love and other accidents, with two merry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. U. Play Dress Rehearsal. | 4/27/1898 | See Source »

...incident related by one of his friends effectively shows the spirit which actuated him. Not long ago this friend presented him with a book on the fly leaf of which he had written: "To Citizen Black from one of his constituents." In reading it Mr. Black said thoughtfully, "What a splendid distinction it would be to have it said by the world: "He was a worthy citizen.'" Such distinction was won by Morris Black, and his record may well be emulated by college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/6/1898 | See Source »

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