Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have become so frequent of late, will be stopped, even if radical measures must be adopted. If the men refuse to look at the matter in the right light and persist in this deplorable custom of hissing and stamping, there is but one course of action - that is to close the gallery to visitors. It does not reflect much credit on the better side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege, one has to resort to the only alternative, that of taking it from him. In this case, however...
...death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great skill to the touching close - three staccato notes in the strings only, as soft as possible, "preceeded by fragments of the original themes, coming like inevitable death on the broken purposes of the hero." The overture was finely played though perhaps a little too dramatically...
...except as a member of the Board of Overseers. For this reason he was probably not personally known to many undergraduates at the time of his death; but in the days of his active life here he would have been grieved to think that he was not in very close touch with a majority of the students...
...next event was an exhibition on the parallel bars. The entries were R. Macallister '93 and E. E. Clarke '94. Each man had three trials and the muscular development and cleverness which both men evinced was remarkable. Indeed the contest was so close that it had to be decided by lot at which Clark...
...potato race was a very close contest. There were six entries: C. B. Earle '94, E. H. Clark '96, G. L. Collins '96, A. L. Jackson '95, F. H. Bartlett '96. In the first heat Earle won with Clark second; in the second heat Jackson won with Bartlett second. These four men were the contestants in the final heat which was won amid a good deal of excitement by Jackson in 49 seconds. Clark secured second prize...