Word: elders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith, Elder & Co. (London) are publishing a limited edition de luxe of Fielding's works, in ten volumes 8vo., by subscription only. They are edited by Leslie Stephen...
...sugar refinery of Havemeyer & Elder, at Williamsburg, N. Y., was burned yesterday. Loss, $1,500,000. Insurance, 60 per cent, of loss. One thousand men deprived of employment...
...finally, we should keep alive our interest in the great political and social question of the day. It may seem to some that these results are painted in too glowing colors, but we feel confident that, under proper management, a Harvard Union might in time compete with its elder English rival. Of late, the subject has been talked of seriously here, and at the request of several members of the University, the Crimson will call a meeting, - time and place to be announced hereafter, - where all those interested may discuss the advisability of organizing a debating society. While we thus...
There are professors and professors. Some are young, some old, some tall, and some thin. Then, too, there are some who stand midway between these extremes. But of all, the young professor is the most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle...