Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The first three of a series of biographies published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., under the title of the "Riverside Biographical Series" are the work of Harvard men.
William Garrott Brown '91, deputy keeper of the University Records, has written the life of Andrew Jackson, an interesting account of this picturesque personage, whose true place in our history has always been a disputed question. The book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is...
The Life of Franklin, by Paul E. More, A. M. '93, covers ground more threshed out, and tells a more practical and less romantic story. It is ably and comprehensively written, and is also marked by generosity of treatment. The public side of Franklin is made prominent, but the author...
Louis How, '95 tells the story of his grandfather, James B. Eads, the engineer, a great man who did not owe his greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in...
Both of the skating rinks on Soldiers Field are now practically finished, and can be made ready for use at a day's notice. The rinks this year are placed parallel to the park-way, and are both 180 feet long by 80 feet wide, with rounded corners. A pipe...