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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 9 1 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 6 0 Browse Search
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 4 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Season of 1922-23. (search)
Season of 1922-23. No meetings were held in June and September as was expected, and the season opened as usual with that of October 16, 1922. Mr. J. Stevens Kadesch, principal of Medford High School, gave a very interesting address on Humor as Expressed in Dickens' Novels. A number of gifts to our collection were received and displayed, among them an Indian tomahawk found at West Medford by the late Samuel Teele. The November meeting was held on the 20th, in the vestry of the Mystic Church, which had recently celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary, and the exercises were pertinent thereto. Fred H. C. Woolley was the speaker, his subject, Ship Street and Galen James. Our secretary notes it thus: A vivid account of the street as he knew it in the ‘70s, illustrating his talk with his own drawings of its houses and ships at the shipyard. On the blackboard he drew a vessel in construction, explaining as he proceeded; also pictures of Deacon James' horse and carriage and of
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
e to us with a professional reputation already well established, and she at once took a firm hold on the duties of her new position. The Committee observe with pleasure the interest she has awakened in her classes, her thorough methods of instruction, and the excellent results which have followed her labors. No pupil who took English under Miss Swift has ever forgotten Macbeth or her reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream before class in the morning, or best of all, her wonderful reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol the morning before the Christmas vacation. With this famous trio of teachers the high school conducted all its activities for the next four years. And the activities of the high school were by no means inconsiderable. There were two general courses of study, with additions for the college course. Thus the teachers covered in the three years course Latin or French, physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, bookkeeping, geometry, English grammar (review), ancient history,