Word: northern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Theodore Roosevelt of Harvard has written an account of the hunting trip of a ranchman in chase of large game on the northern cattle plains. The first edition will be printed on large paper, and limited to five hundred copies. The illustrations are made by well known artists...
...Livermore, The Northern Volunteer...
...Japanese ivy bids fair to transform completely the appearance of the streets in our northern cities, and it will be a pity if our college buildings do not share this transformation. We have a little ivy here and there. And no one who has observed what a change this little makes in the dingy, dusty, dreariness of the older buildings, can help regretting that the college has not taken the trouble during past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think...
...Tupper, a recent graduate of Harvard. The book is a tale of the reconstruction period at the South. and reminds one in its general character of some of Judge Turgee's works. The story is divided into two parts; the first represents the unavailing attempts of a Northern man to overcome Southern prejudice, the record shows the impossibility of freeing a Southern man from the bigoted views which he has been taught from childhood. Immediately after the war, characters such as are described in the book undoubtedly existed in large numbers. but the tendency of latter years has been...
...poet Addison had of reeling off good hexameter verse, a "knack" not his alone, but common to most of the then students of average ability, we may form some idea of the system pursued at that time. It is said that even in the present age in the northern countries of Europe, especially Denmark, if a foreigner is unable to converse in the modern languages, a limited conversation may be carried on in Latin, at least among the fairly educated population. The system of the English was to put a dead language into active use, conversing...