Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first performance went off with eclat - in spite of a slight lack of vigor on the part of the orchestra. The play was over at 10.45 p.m., just before the close of the Patti show in the neighboring Annex. The performances yesterday were eminently successful, and the audience last night were highly enthusiastic, and the play went more smoothly than before. The theatrical committee is given below. All praise is due to Messrs. Michael and Daniels for the earnest work and thought which they have put into the play. To their efforts the success...
...hopes of a celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat will tend to relieve the monotony which must otherwise ensue from three successive days of uproar. The features of the undergraduate celebration will undoubtedly suit the exigencies of the case, and be such as will best allow the students to manifest their interest in this anniversary. We hope that much reference...
...Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...
...very poor substitute at that, for the instruction in elocution received at the eastern colleges. With all deference to the colleges of the west, it seems slightly unnecessary to incorporate into Harvard a tacitly acknowledged weakness of her humbler rivals. If they who desire the honor and eclat of oratorical victories would pay more attention to the fully competent and exceptional instruction in elocution already provided for the students of Harvard, there would be less thought given to "such an institution" as a National Inter-collegiate Oratorical Association...
...fact. the game exists for the same reason that horse racing and circus exhibitions exist. The students who are good players are led into base ball by the eclat which good playing brings there. If fun and out-door exercise were the only motives, the scientific game of base ball would be forgotten in a week...