Word: friends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desired by both Harvard and Yale. Surely they are not bound in any way. Harvard, it is conceded, has been generally outwitted by Yale in council as well as in the field, and we read this morning that Yale is showing her love for her new friend and quondam enemy by quite as many men ruled off the field at Springfield as were ruled off the Princeton team at Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were...
...University Bulletin, edited by Justin Winsor, contains an excellent article entitled "Notes on the MS volume of Shelley's poems in the Library of Harvard College," by George Edward Woodberry. This volume was given to the library by Mr. E. A. Silsbee, who had received it from an intimate friend of Shelley's, and was plainly a copybook and not intended for use in original composition. The object of Mr. Woodberry's notes is to place before students the variations between the MS text and Formau's edition, London, 1876. Appended to the article is a facsimile of the draft...
...with several picturesque illustrations. Another of Frank R. Stockton's amusing stories is begun in this number, called "The Merry Chanter." Mark Twain publishes some extracts from his new book, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," which have all of his old humor. The new serial is "Friend Olivia," by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Nicolay and Hay is rapidly drawing to a close. The present number describes the second inaugural and the last battle of the war. The other articles in the number are "Adventures in Eastern Siberia," by George Kennan...
...death is announced of Argyll Frazer of the class of '92. His death was accidental and under most distressing circumstances. On the 16th of August he attended a base ball game, and while there was playing ball with a friend, when the ball slipped through his hands, striking him between the eyes. He was taken to the hospital, and was thought to be recovering, but lock-jaw set in, and he soon died...
...tried to solve was how to utilize the spare moments which busy men and women can give to the service of fellow beings less fortunately situated. It is the object of the association to send in to every family in distress some one to exert an influence as a friend. An occasional visit, with a careful investigation and a search for a remedy is in general the plan of work. In Boston there is our central office controlling over seven hundred such visitors. There is plenty of work to be done and an infinite variety of problems to be solved...