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There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could...
...present. The musical part of the programme was furnished by six excellent singers, of which two were ladies, and an interesting series of early examples of musical art was given, comprising sextetts, quartets and solos. The lecturer began by sketching the rise of the art of music from the earliest times. Music properly so called is the youngest of the fine arts. Its progress is traceable to four different sources-the Christian church music, the troubadours, the opera oratorio, etc., of the 17th century, and lastly the rise of modern instrumental music. Harmony was unknown in the earliest music; scales...
...once to the solicitations of the crew management, and relieve it from the pressure which has been brought to bear upon it. But the present freshman class should early see the necessity of a prompt support of its crew, and its manager should publish next fall at his earliest opportunity, a full report of the financial standing of the crew...
Among the events which have rendered the past year memorable to me has been the demolition of that venerable and interesting old dwelling-house, precious for its intimate association with the earliest stages of the was of the Resolution, and sacred to me as my birth-place and the home of my boyhood...
...Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes that one of his earliest recollect s is of standing at his fathers gateway, on what is now Kirkiand street in Cambridge and seeing the forms of young men climbing, swinging and twirling aloft in the open play ground opposite." This open lot was the only gymnasium which Harvard then possessed, and although...