Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair...
After putting up a creditable game against Dartmouth on Tuesday, the 'varsity nine turned back yesterday and played a game that kept its supporters in agony during the afternoon. The only man who had no error scored against his name was Hayes, but he was so very slow that several times the Amherst men were credited with hits to right field which should have been out with a quick fielder...
From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music...
...varsity crew was out an unusually long time yesterday. Perkins took Bullard's place at No. 4 when the crew first went out, but after a row to the Abattoir and back, gave it up and took to the launch, from which he coached the crew for the remainder of the afternoon...
...Roman theatre, it is probable that the scenery did not extend to the top of the permanent back wall. Accordingly, the scenery which Mr. O. B. Story designed reaches only to the base line of the gallery above the stage, leaving this and the inscription over it visible. The scene represents the fronts of three houses in a street in Athens, and is the same throughout the entire play. It is excellently designed and executed; but if possible, even greater success has been achieved in the painting on the curtain...