Word: highwayman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boylston Prizes for Elocution held last week, A. A. Rouner '20, and F. C. Packard '20, were awarded the two first prizes of $30 each. Their addresses dealt respectively with the "American Standard," taken from a speech of Booker T. Washington '96, and a poem by Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman." Three second prizes of $20 each were also awarded as follows: R. E. Eckstein '20, "Joan of Arc," by Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges were Dean Fenn...
This criticism applies to Mr. Fay's story of "The Penitent Highwayman," to "The Festive Season," which could appear with slight verbal changes in the Christmas number of any college paper year after year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard...
...league, or commercial non-intercourse? To pledge nations to declare war is a dreadful thing. Apply the same question to the maintenance of order within a city. Why have a policeman, and why should he be armed? If he sees a burglar breaking into a house, or a highwayman attacking a wayfarer, why should he not call a meeting of the city council for conference Why instead of having a police force, should not the citizens agree to boycott offenders? The answer is clearly--because it would not be effective in preventing violence. By the time such remedies...
Aimwell, J. M. Graham '15Archer, L. deJ. Harvard '15Sir Charles Freeman, D. Loring '16Boniface, landlord of the Inn, R. C. Fenn '15Scrub, servant to the ladies, G. C. Smith, Jr., '15Foigard, a French priest, T. K. Fisher '17Gibbet, a highwayman, W. J. R. Taylor '17Hounslow, a rogue, R. D. Campbell '17Bagshot, another rogue, A. Potter '17Tapster, C. H. Smith '15Lady Bountiful, H. Francke '15Dorinda, her daughter, W. B. Breed '15Mistress Sullen, her daughter-in-law, F. Fremont-Smith '17Gipsey, their maid, D. F. Fenn '15Cherry, the landlord's daughter, D. F. Fenn...
...Roxbury, N. Y., and Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of London, England, as a result of the final round in Sanders Theatre last evening. Each speaker was given a prize of $30. The selections read by the winners were respectively, "Intervention With Cuba," by John M. Thurston, and "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes...