Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Loeffler. His rendering of the Scotch Fantasie was a delightful treat to all music lovers, and in perfect keeping with the high standard of this artist. The work makes unusual demands on the player but Mr. Loeffler met all technicalities with the greatest of ease. The concert ended with the allegretto and finale from Beethoven's eighth Symphony. Mr. Gericke received an ovation as he stepped from the platform. At the end of each selection he was heartily encored; but when the last number was over he was forced to bow his acknowledgements again and again. It is very evident...
...kept it there until the stroke was finished. The blades were covered throughout the stroke and remained in the air as short a time as was consistent with the avoidance of "rushing" the slides. There was hardly the slightest perceptible "hang" of shoulders or hands at either end of the stroke. Although the body work was not all that could be desired, the "watermanship" or action of the blades was as smooth as the stroke of a piston...
...piece, the object glass, which is twelve inches in diameter and a plain mirror of eighteen inches in diameter, set in front of the object glass. Focal length is sixteen and a half feet. The telescope tube is rested permanently upon two stone piers, one near each end, and twelve feet apart. About five feet of the length of the tube projects into the observatory building and the remainder is out of doors...
...solid silver cups or larger ones of plated ware. The majority decided upon the smaller ones and these mementos will probably prove to be more satisfactory than any others which could have been purchased for the same amount of money. Ninety-two had such a large surplus at the end of the season that she could well afford to give suitable mementos to the victorious team. The names of the men who are to receive cups are Curtis, Newell, Baker, Allen, Travis, Heard, Hunt, Cranston, Harding, Dennison, Lee, Wadsworth, Forbes and Smith...
Brown University will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...