Word: merton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...probably sent to imbibe conservative views, or because they or their parents have been fired by reading "Tom Brown." But Oxford is commonly conceived of as far more stereotyped than it really is. Among the works studied are those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical of the time...
...Osgood, William Sigourney Otis, Henry Deeley Page, James Parker, Robert Fletcher Patterson, Daniel Edward Paullin, George Halsey Perley. Edward Emerson Phillips, William Magruder Phillips. John Pickering, George Miller Pinney, William Henry Potter, Robert Johnson Hare Powell, George Hyde Preston, George Sharp Raymer, Edward Prescott Reed. Herbert Howard Roberts. Warren Merton Robinson, Alfred Harri on Rogers, Barney Sachs, Thomas Jordan Sauzade. William Henry Schaefer. Samuel Shepherd. Paul Shorey. James Fulton Slade, Herbert Weir Smyth Alfred Warner Spencer, William Antonius Spirney, George Hermon Steams, William Oskman Stearns, Russell Sturgis, George Eliab Sturtevant, William Sullivan, David Arthur Taggart, Frederick Weston Taylor, Henry Osborn...
...History of Sandford and Merton. Being a True Account of the Adventures of "Masters Tommy and Harry, with their Beloved Tutor, Mr. Barlow." By F. C. BURNAND, with seventy-six illustrations by LINLEY SAMBOURNE. Boston: Roberts Brothers...
...almost with regret that we take up a burlesque of that delight of our school-days, Sandford and Merton; but, since the author of the new history has already given us proof of his humor in Happy Thoughts and other books, we look for amusement, if not instruction, and are not disappointed. The book opens very funnily with a description of the "hilarious" son of the farmer, and of the young Jamaica nabob. Of course the omniscient Mr. Barlow falls an easy prey to the author's talent for ridicule, and becomes in farce what Mr. Pecksniff is in comedy...
...whole, we strongly advise any one who wishes to enjoy a hearty laugh after dinner, or, indeed, at any other time, to read Sandford and Merton in its new form...