Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...receiving a valentine? How carefully he opens the large envelope, with cupids and flowers stamped on it; how eagerly he tries to detect the disguised handwriting; how complacently he appropriates the pretty motto within, to himself! Appreciating the vividness of this pleasure, and wishing my best friends to enjoy it, I have sent the following valentines to those I am most interested in at present. The first was written with the sentiment briefly expressed on a postal card, and directed...
Finally, we fear there would be little accomplished after four o'clock on Saturday. A Sunday at home will afford abundant leisure for reading. Or is it possible that the President recommends the use of Sunday as study-time? Moreover, he argues that by remaining in Cambridge we can enjoy "intellectual conversation" with our fellow-students. Is "intellectual conversation" confined to students? And does he pay a very high compliment to our home surroundings when he intimates that we must remain in Cambridge for this mental stimulus...
...second University Concert, which took place last evening, was deserving of a much larger audience than was in the theatre to enjoy it. That concerts of such quality and so convenient of access should be so miserably supported is a most humiliating disgrace to the College and the Cambridge public. The programme was as rich in variety as it was strong in single numbers, the most prominent feature being the posthumous Symphony of Goetz. It is a most striking and original work, emphatically remarkable when we consider that the composer died at thirty-six years of age, and that this...