Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club sang at this meeting. The audience was large and the exercises were very interesting. At the close of the meeting the farewell exercises were held, and with them the first Y. M. C. A. Conference at Harvard was finished. That the conference has been a successful one cannot be doubted...
...with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles of the number. The usual book reviews and short notices, together with the Contributor's Club (which contains a criticism of Mr. Watts's pictures), close this issue. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...
Last year we won with five firsts and five seconds; Yale was second, with four firsts and three seconds; and Columbia was third with three firsts and four seconds. This was a very close shave, for had Yale won any of the five events taken by Harvard, the great challenge cup would have gone to New Haven instead of coming back to Cambridge. Of the successful team of Harvard men last May, Goodwin, who won two of the first prizes, has graduated, as have two of the winners of second prizes, Allen and Mandell. Yale and Columbia have their teams...
...there were, were chiefly in the Ruy Blas overture, a little unsteadiness being occasionally noticeable in some of the sudden and trying changes of tempo; and Mr. Gericke's reading seemed to arrive at the climax rather too soon, there not being a sufficient gradual working up to the close. The soloist was Mr. M. Loeffler, and it was a great pleasure to have him again here this winter. His performance a year ago will be remembered as a very excellent and musicianly one; and the impression of his merits as a violinist was greatly strengthened by his playing last...
...Gordon, D. D., of Boston, will address the convention, and a discussion will follow. On Sunday evening the final meeting will be held to hear several gentlemen speak who are prominently connected with Christian Association work, and the convention will then be brought to a close. It was hoped that Messrs. Moody and Sayford would be present, but other engagements will prevent them from attending. A full programme of each day's proceedings will be published on convention week...