Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer. The very presence of the Committee for the Reception of New Students, composed as it is partly of professors and partly of students, at once impresses the stranger with the close relation existing between the two bodies. But perhaps what is contributing meet to bring about a more satisfactory state of affairs is the fact that for the offices with which the undergraduates come into the closest relations, men have been chosen who are well liked and have the confidence...
...rules of rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised...
...until he had exhausted his repertoire and it was not until he had been called back nine or ten times that the applause died down so that the Glee Club could start "Fair Harvard." Wilder said good-bye to the Glee Club at the close of the concert and was given a hearty three-times-three. He started on his way home to Honolulu immediately after the concert...
...tournament was held in the rooms of the Harvard School, New York, and at its close a formal reception was given the members of the competing teams, at which the Harvard players were presented with the challenge cup and with silver medals. The cup is open to challenge up to June 1; failing that, it would remain permanently in Harvard's possession...
NEXT week will close the engagement of Roland Reed at the Boston Museum in his highly successful comedy, "The Politician." This play has made such a great hit that large houses greet the players at every performance. No one should lose the opportunity of seeing him as General Josiah Limber, the greatest success of his professional career. He shows up in the most ludicrous light the defects in our political system, so that politicians themselves are kept in a constant laughter. The satirical view in which the comedy is written and the clever manner in which the leading character...