Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large. French horns, and bass-horns called "semi-brass monsters" were occasional innovations, but we learn that on more than one occasion these instruments "did not chord with the flutes...
...Vesper Services last evening were conducted by Dr. Phillips Brooks. About six hundred people were present. The choir was assisted by Mr. H. M. Babcock and rendered the following music: "Holy Spirit, Come, O Come," Bass Solo and chorus by Marlin, and "Look Down, O Lord," Base Solo and chorus from Elijah...
...Peabody, Rev. E. S. Hale, and Rev. Dr. Gordon officiated. The choir was supplemented by the Temple Quartet of Boston, consisting of Meser. Bateman, (first tenor); Webber, (second tenor); Cook, (first bass); and Ryder, (second bass). The service was opened by the singing of the anthem by the choir. Dr. Peabody in his short prayer then spoke of the fitness of such an hour of quiet retreat, in which our hard, intellectual life may be softened by an appeal to our emotional nature. The 39th psalm was then read. Following this was Buck's superb "Lead, Kindly Light," sung...
Fish, Boiled Striped Bass, Celery...
...attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks crocked so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers; six pall bearers with a six foot coffin on their shoulders; and then the sophomore class...