Word: chief
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students on Professor Paine's first recital, and the second and third were equally successful. To the lovers of classical music there is no more precious opportunity than this. Here we can renew our acquaintance with our old friends Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Sebastian Bach, and all the chief classical masters. I cannot be too urgent in my appeal to all to embrace this opportunity to hear the best classical music; for nothing so elevates and purifies a man's soul, and stimulates all that is noble and manly in us, as the music of Beethoven, Chopin, or Schumann...
...surest remedy is to exclude him. Let those who have the authority present the facts of the case to the editor in chief of the Herald, and there will be no more trouble in that quarter...
...circumstances of the foundation of Harvard, and the purpose which it served, are alike unknown. One of the chief peculiarities of Harvard is, that it seems to have had absolutely no connection either with the nation or with its immediate neighborhood. Containing within itself a government and a classified society, it had no hand in the management of the affairs of the nation; it had no connection with the Church; it concerned itself neither with commerce, with manufacturing, nor with agriculture. All that is known about it is the form of its government, the divisions of its inhabitants, some scattered...
Harvard owned a large library, but it was kept hermetically sealed. One of the chief subjects of complaint in the papers is the impossibility of getting at the books...
...could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others whose chief delight is to build a tower of moral rectitude whence they may alternately gloat over their own superiority and lament the vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have its representative, but when one sets up bounds outside of which a college...