Word: tom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON MUSEUM. - "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Performance...
...editors of the Yale College Literary Magazine, an enterprising youth from Sioux City Iowa, has been caught publishing one of Tom Moore's poems over his own signature and has resigned his position, while the upper grade societies to which he belonged are nearly crazy with excitement...
Postal cards have been sent to those members of the Tennis Association who owe Tom O'Hara for marking, rolling or other work on courts, stating the amount due according to the reduced rates. Those who pay within three days can obtain the reduced rates, and will confer a favor on the association, which cannot complete its arrangements with Tom O'Hara until all former dues have been paid...
...Lyman Abbott in a recent article on Rugby, gives a description of life at this popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees...
...short, Yale has concealed in her bosom a poet whose fame should be heralded abroad. Where he came from we do not know, - poets, they say, are born, not made, but this poet, we think, must, like the semi-heroine of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," never have been born at all, but merely "growed." Where he is going to, can, perhaps, be easier told. He will write one more effusion, and, then - well, if he lived in Massachusetts, Danvers would then claim...