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...utterly worthless when written. The most remarkable verse we have met, one which expresses the feelings the sea stirred up in the poet, and in which the author seems to be in a sort of ecstasy of grief and woe while giving one the impression that he was "born tired," is the following...
Reuben Whipple Lovering, the only child of Reuben and Martha Lovering, was born at Hillsboro' Bridge, New Hampshire, Dec. 9, 1862. While he was still a small boy, his father died; and the education of the son devolved upon the mother, who in spite of numerous difficulties, devoted herself to the task with the zeal and energy a boy of such rare promise deserved. Having completed the course in the Hillsboro' High School, he went for two terms to Tilton Academy. In Sept., 1877, he entered the junior class in Phillips Exeter Academy ; and, though not yet sixteen years...
Messrs. Schurtz and McCosh of our "Immortal" list were elected by the Critic's readers but were refused by the editors because they are not American born...
...Ezra Abbott, the Bussey professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation, died at his home in Cambridge on Friday evening. Dr. Abbott was born in Maine in 1819, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. graduating at Bowdoin College in 1840 he spent five years in teaching in Maine, and then removed to Cambridge where he has since resided. In 1856 he was appointed assistant librarian to Harvard College, and in 1872 he was appointed to the professorship in the Divinity School which he held to his death. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard...
...house in which I was born is situated on Lake street, number 17. It is near the residence of the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate professional friend of my father. In this house I have resided all my life, excepting the six last years,-two spent at Exeter, four at Cambridge. Graduating at the Covington Grammar school in 1876 and the High school in 1878, I spent two years at Exeter, preparatory to entering Harvard. I passed at the July examination, 1880, with honors and conditions alike invisible. Travelling in Italy during...