Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...orchestration and in the intensely dramatic and vivid manner in which the fate Desdemona is portrayed. The composer has adhered to strictly his own ideas and by doing so he has given us a most delightful and refreshing piece of music. The overture to Tannhaeuser made a very fitting close. It was given with great warmth and vigor the conductor allowing the bass more freedom than is his wont-The audience were completely carried away by the music and applauded Mr. Gericke most heartily at the end of the piece...
...freshmen beat the sophomores at bawl, and the seniors played hot Scotch on the College Green between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, of how - but the rest we leave to the vivid pen of our historian. We make especial mention of this series of papers, in order that, at the close of this distressing period of the college year, we may assure ourselves that our readers will peruse something each day which by strictly impartial glorification of the college and its color will restore them from their present unwonted condition of blueness to their usual cheerfulnes...
...director of the gymnasium at Cornell has threatened to close in the evening unless more students...
...correct, it is generally looked upon with suspicious eyes. The perfection of rules of measuring, starting and timing, make the present records all over the world uniform, and establish them as final when they are made. However, it can be seen that the present records are pushed down so close that only in bicycling, where new ones are merely set up to be knocked down again, is there a probability of an important change in the immediate future.Even the fastest runner can hardly hope to beat 10 seconds in the 100 yards, without a flying-start, though many cracks, including...
...obnoxious odor which pervaded the yard and its immediate neighborhood last Saturday morning, was caused by the smouldering of the cotton felting fastened around the water pipes which lead from University to Thayer. The smouldering was due to the close proximity of the steam pipes to the water pipes...