Word: rev
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first my active imagination placed before me the colossal celebrity known as the Rev. Mr. Rivers. To him I stated the problem, and he began at once to "orate" with a quick and full-mouthed eloquence...
...Well, I'll tell you," replied the Lamprey, picking up the papers that had fallen from his sleeve to the floor. "The Rev. Dr. Bonfire Burnham was just in to see me, and he told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted...
...Harvard Shakespeare, edited by Rev. Henry N. Hudson," deserves some notice, perhaps, at our hands. We are certainly concerned in an undertaking which boldly appropriates the name of our College for its titlepage. But we can hardly congratulate Mr. Hudson on his good judgment in thus attempting to connect himself or his writings with an institution that has never yet taken the slightest notice of him. We confess it had occurred to us that there was only one man who could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred...
...Greek play articles in the Traveller are written by the Rev. E. E. Hale...
...following appointments have been made by the Overseers: Assistant Professors Byerly and Jackson, full professors, - well merited promotions, both. Rev. F. G. Peabody has been appointed Parkman Professor of Theology. Mr. Edwin H. Hall has been appointed Instructor in Physics. Mr. Hall took his degree of Ph. D. a year since, at Johns Hopkins University; he is also A. B., Bowdoin...