Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would welcome any religious organization. Is opportunities and its line of work is much the same as those of other societies of its kind. Its discouragements and obstacles will differ but little from theirs. If anything, they will be even greater because of the prejudice which so many bear to ward this particular denomination. And yet this very difficulty opens at once a field of work where much good may be done. Here at Harvard, above all other places, there ought to be but one level where men of all religions may meet without sectarian prejudices creeping in to create...
Shells will cross this line between Beacon Street, and the judges boat, which will bear a flag...
...hand by Friday, at the latest, fully three hundred dollars. This must be given by the class, for the Athletic Committee will not allow it to be borrowed. Unless, then, Ninety-six will come forward within the next few days to the support of her nine, she must bear the chagrin of seeing the Princeton game cancelled for lack of funds to pay for the travelling expenses. This is no idle threat. Other classes have been placed in similar predicaments, but they have managed to extricate themselves by subscribing liberally. We wish to state the facts plainly and accurately...
Tschaikowsky's magnificent fifth Symphony brought to a close the finest concert, perhaps, of the season. His compositions bear more or less of the Slavonic temperament - "fiery exaltation on a basis of languid melancholy." He is fond of fantastic and melodic tunes, bold modulations and striking effects; and his fifth symphony is perhaps his most characteristic. The orchestration is very rich, the various instruments playing alternately one time to give fantastic effects and again combining in grand harmonies. There is much restlessness throughout, even in the lovely Andante cantabile and the orchestra is kept at a high tension. The Symphony...
...fund and prize will bear the name of the late Prof. Thomas A. Thacher Yale '35 and formerly professor of Latin at that university. The income from the funds will be available at once, and the conditions for competition for the prize will be announced in a short time...