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...giving the diplomas Wednesday for the Institute of Technology graduates, General Walker declared that these certificates meant what they said, and that there was no academic fiction about the coveted testimonials to years of hard and patient work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1887 | See Source »

...times, men who barely scraped through college got the same diploma as the real students. This was the fiction General Walker doubtless had in mind. Colleges and similar institutions have now raised their standard so that a diploma means something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1887 | See Source »

Assyrian Readings. Subject: The Sardanapalus of Fiction and the Sardanapalus of History. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar. | 3/8/1887 | See Source »

Assyrian Readings. Subject: The Sardanapalus of Fiction and the Sardanapalus of History. Professor Lyon. Upper Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/5/1887 | See Source »

...first two chapters of William Henry Bishop's new serial, "The Golden Justice," appear in the Atlantic for May. Charles Egbert Craddock's installment of 'In the Clouds" is in her best manner. Henry James continues his "Princess Casamassima" in characteristic style. The fiction of the number is completed by a sketch of New England life, "Marsh Rosemary," by Sarah Orne Jewett. Mr. John Fiske continues his papers on American History by one treating of "The Weakness of the American Government under the Articles of Confederation." Mr. E. P. Evans has a paper on "The Aryan Homestead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/23/1886 | See Source »

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