Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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PHIS FIGURE represents T % a very popular Over- coat. It is known as the J I English Covert Top Coat. f I I import these direct from London and sell them at prices ranging from lo to $2,0. For style, quality and good money value they are not excelled and cannot be had elsewhere. Besides this Special Covert Coat we have a full line of English-made Overcoats, Suits and Trow- sers at prices never before offered for such stylish, superior garments. E. O. THOMPSON, Tailor Importer , 908 Walnut Street. PHILADELPHIA. Also, 245 Broadway, New York. Special Depot, 1338 Chestnut St.

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WORCESTER ' S UNABRIDGED QUARTO DICTIOlSrA RY, iTANDARD With or without Deni Patent Index. EIDITIOl OIF 1887. ENLAROKD BY THE ADDITION OF A New Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary of nearly 12,000 personages, and A New Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World, noting and Licathig over 20,000 p laces. Containing also OVER 12,500 NEW WORDS, recently added, together with A Table of 5000 ' Words in General Use, with their Synonymes. ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD-CUT AND FULL-PAGE PLATES. THE NEW EDITION OF VORCESTKR ' S DICTIONARY Contains thousands of words not to be found in any other Dictionary, The National Standard of American Literature. Every edition of Longfellow, Holmes, Bryant, Irving, Vv ' hittier, and o ther eminent Amer- ican authors, follows Worcester. It presents the usage of all great English Writers. It is the authority of all the leading magazines and nczvspapcrs of the Country and of the Nat- ional Department at Washington. Oliver Wendell Holmes says ; Worcester ' s Dictionary has constantly Iain on my table for daily use, and Webster ' s re- posed on my shelves for occa.sional consultation. The Recognized Authority on Pronunciation. VorccstC7- ' s Dictionary presents the accepted usage of our best public speakers, and has been regarded as the .?MWrt;-( by our leading orators, Everett, Sumner, Phillips, Garfield, Hillard, and others. JMost clergymen and lawyers use Worcester ' s as authority on pronuncia- tion. From Hon. Chas. Sumner. The best authority. From Hon. Edward Everett. His orthography and pronunciation re- present, as far as 1 am aware, the best ap- proved usage of oiu language. From Hon. Jas. A. Garfield. The most reliable standard authority of the English language as it is now written and spoken. From Hon. Alexander H.Stephens Worcester ' s Dictionary is the standard with me. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. J. B. LiPPiNCOTT Company, Publishers. 715 717 MARKET STREET, Philadelphia