Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cercle has made arrangements with several other prominent French lecturers for lectures during the year. Among these are, Professor G. McClure Harper of Princeton, who will lecture December 15 on "Le Caractere Natural de la poesie lyrique francaise"; Professor A. Chu, late of Harvard, now of Columbia, who will speak January 19 on French Political Life; Professor A. van Dael of M. I. T., who will address the club in February on Maupassant; and Rene Doumic, the well-known critic of the Revue des Deux-Mondes, who will give a series of eight lectures during March on various phases...
Committee.- Henry M. Alden, E. L. Burlingame, Beverly Chew, Charles B. Foote, Jeannette B. Gilder, Richard Watson Gilder, Clarence King, Gustav E. Kissel, John La Farge, Will H. Low, James McArthur, S. S. McClure, Augustus St. Gaudens, Charles Scribner, J. Kennedy Tod, Geo. E. Waring...
...Govenor William E. Russell will preside at the debate. The judges will be Hon. George Fred. Williams of Massachusetts, Professor A. T. Hadley of Yale, and Professor Richmond Mayo-Smith of Columbia. Among those who will come from Princeton to hear the debate is Professor McClure. From Yale will come W. H. Clark, who spoke in last year's Harvard-Yale debate and C. N. Clark, one of the winners of this year's Yale-Princeton debate...
...McClure's Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader's attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge...
...McClure's magazine for January is to have an article giving the whole story (never yet published, but long desired by the public) of Mr. Blaine's relation to his own candidacy for the Presidency in 1884. It is written by Murat Halstead, whose opportunity for knowing all the facts was unequaled; and it embodies conversations with Blaine and an important unpublished letter written by him a few days after his defeat. Some very interesting portraits will accompany the article, and the Blaine letter will be reproduced in facsimile...