Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there ever was a perfect performance, the rendering of the overture deserves to be called perfect. So vividly were Manfred's sorrows, his despair and noble defiance of fate brought before the listener that when the last low notes died away it seemed a shame that the illusion should be destroyed. Liszt's symphonic poem was given with the usual success, and seemed to be the most popular number on the programme...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate urges that something be done to cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that...
...fills three deep stone wells in the cellar of the building. By means of a powerful engine the water is forced up one of these wells into a large iron pipe. Through this pipe the water is conducted to the reservoir on reservoir hill, about half a mile away...
...Bugle read and simply wonder. Perhaps it is all right, perhaps not. No one pauses to ask. It is not strange, however, if in future C's contributors are passed with suspicion. D. sings his little "Willow song," mounts his little pedestal, poses for a moment, and passes away. Such are our poets. They sing to us and we listen in pleased surprise, or transient pain...
...topics, the student would be so keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn all that was said, involuntarily as it were. These theses would, of course, be marked excellent, good, bad, etc., and not by percentages; thus doing away with all ranking, except by grades, which is one of the crying evils of the present system. It may be urged that if many men had the same topic to write upon, as would necessarily happen, they would get some one else to write for them; but this is really...