Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Next came a dashing fellow whose chin was elevated, and whose mouth was moulded in an habitual sneering smile. This was a Wit and a Critic. "Bold knight of the quill," said he, "take my advice: make your paper caustic and spicy; make fun of the literary men, the athletes, the bummers, the professors, and the college papers. Make fun of college life. Sneer at it, my boy, and your paper will go. Here is a light article on 'Lies in Literary Life, or a Factitious Faculty,' and a few good things for the Brevity Column...
...FRANCIS P. KNIGHT is the originator of the plan for the instruction of Chinese at Harvard...
...Knight, S. H. Saunders...
...stained-glass windows given by the class of 1857 are now being put up in Memorial. On one is Epaminondas, and underneath, the Spartan mother giving the shield to her son. On the other is Sir Philip Sidney, and beneath, the scene at the battle of Zutphen, where that knight gives the wounded soldier his own cup of water...
...mile-handicap, G. H. Napier (80 yds.), 4 min. 44 2/5 sec.; broad jump, C. M. Kemp (penalized 1 foot), 20 ft. 8 1/2 in.; quarter-mile, A. H. Evans, 53 3/5 sec.; three-miles walking, M. Malleson (penalized 40 yds), 27 min. 35 sec.; 120-yards consolation, R. Knight...