Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chose the E flat concerto of Liszt as her solo number, as it offers very little that is appreciable. Frl. Aus Der Ohe was recalled at least seven times by the combined applause of the orchestra and the Cambridge audience, which had really been thoroughly aroused by the brilliant playing of the artist...
...Harvard Herald will appear next Tuesday as a college daily. Its projectors, headed by Sophomores W. E. Haskell and E. M. Gill, are all brilliant young collegians, and as Harvard needs a good daily paper, its success can hardly be questioned. It will contain local and telegraphic news, editorials and special contributions, and will be printed by The Cambridge Tribune press, on tinted paper. Its size, 14x10 inches, gives twelve columns of advertising and reading space. The Herald will sell for two cents a copy, or $2.00 per year. The heading will be of unique design, and is the work...
...great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins of mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have now become the possession of the world. Judged by his works, Sardanapalus is neither a weakling nor a sensualist, but as statesman and as patron of letters one of the most interesting characters of history...
...language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence of the material...
...first gentleman called on was Gov. Ames, who said that Yale University was "so peculiarly a New England institution that it seemed almost to belong to Massachusetts." He congratulated the university on its brilliant record and its glowing future. Lieut. - Gov. Brackett and others then followed...