Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard side H. C. Lakin '94 of Worcester, Massachusetts will be the first speaker and will be followed by F. C. Mc Laughlin '93 of Somerville, Massachusetts. F. W. Dallinger '93 of Cambridge will close the debate...
Captain Hinkey of the Yale football team issued a call yesterday for candidates for all positions back of the line. The men practiced punting and running with the ball. The training will be kept up till the close of the spring term and taken up again during the summer...
...Lady Austen, and soon there grew up a close friendship. Her lively spirits drove the melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper...
...last Vesper Service of the year. The service will begin promptly at 5 and close at 5.3. The public are invited...
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...