Word: equal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With music vaulted o'er"-are not conspicuous, accompanied by so many of equal grace. Agathan is entirely different in design, but equally elevated in thought and feeling, and as artistic in form. It is a Greek play in iambic pentamenter. My Country, Italian Voluntarics, In the Shadow of Etna, Victor's Bird, and At Gibralter," all have the true poetic ring. Altogether the littler book is an addition to the world's library...
Miss Rosina Vokes has always been welcome in Boston, ever since her first appearance there, when she was the most accomplished of her accomplished family. Miss Vokes hardly has her equal in a certain line of assumptions. The three short plays which were given at the Tremont last night, entitled respectively "The Old Musician," "Wig and Gown," and "My Lord in Livery," afforded many opportunities for Miss Vokes to display her talents, and she neglected none of them. The same triple bill will be given throughout the week...
...coil boiler which has a habit of bursting about every other day. The virtue of being able to get up steam in a few minutes has to be paid for by an uncertainty of keeping it up. The cost of keeping the boat in repair is fully equal to that of running her. She is not a good boat for cold weather. There is no house over the running gear, so that the many water pipes around the engine are liable to freeze on a cold night and burst...
...general Athletic committee. The only other appointment on the football committee thus far is Mr. P. D. Trafford, '89. Mr. Trafford's record is too fresh in all our minds to need any comment. The hope is that the other member of the committee will be chosen with equal wisdom...
...first place there are few events in an athletic contest which equal it in excitement, and none that surpass it in the interest taken in its outcome. Then the "dangerous character" is not so much the fault of the event as it is of the candidates for the team. When a man thinks of entering a race, a jumping match, or a boxing bout, etc., he prepares himself for it by a long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost...