Word: barbara
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Latham, '86, has gone on an olive ranch near St. Barbara, California...
...Barbara Allen, daughter of Prof. F. D. Allen, died at Athens, Greece...
...four years of residence at college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled...
...McGill University (of Montreal) authorities have seized $32,000 belonging to the estate of the late Miss Barbara Scott, to meet the legacy left by her to found a chair in the university, but which the executors would...
After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...