Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objection to a permanent arrangement putting the membership far beyond the seating capacity. Take for example the plan of having a club of twenty men to each twelve or fourteen seat table which would only bring the membership up to about eleven hundred and fifty. The majority of men come to breakfast just before nine, to lunch, at one; nearly all tables would be full at those hours, for at present many club tables are full. That all men would be treated alike is the best thing to be said for the new scheme...
...grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate a mistress, that it seems impossible to believe the power did not come into romance from the Celts. Magic is just the word for it,- the magic of nature; not merely the beauty of nature,- that the Greeks and Latins had; not merely an honest snack of the soil,- that the Germans had; but the intimate life of Nature, her weird power...
...GREENE.PIERIAN.- Rehearsal this afternoon at 4. As there is a concert the 18th, it is necessary that all men, unexcused by the leader, come today and Monday...
...been made in athletics under present circumstances. There has been a tendency, becoming more marked lately, for 'varsity contests to overshadow class contests. Since in the former the first athletes of the University take part, and since on them the athletic reputation of the University is staked, they have come to absorb so much interest that other contests are, by the force of contrast if nothing else, inevitably depressed...
ENGLISH VI.- The debate that should have come today will be postponed until Tuesday the 17th...