Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The speaking commenced at 9 o'clock, when President Eliot rose to announce the first speaker. In his preliminary address President Eliot spoke in part as follows: "This dinner was planned and carried into execution by the Harvard Memorial Society, an organization which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all...
Dr. E. F. Henderson will deliver the fifth of his series of lectures on the French Revolution today at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The special topic has been changed from "The Mountain and the Gironde," to "The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI."
Professor Moore, in addition, visited such other monuments in England as Shoreham, Chichester, Worcester, Gloucester, and Winchester. Furthermore, he gave considerable attention to the great choir of Westminster Abbey. This last, though it is a conscious imitation of the great French cathedral of Reims, bears traces of English influence: it...
In execution, moreover, we have no reason to lie back upon our laurels. Songs which have to be read from printed slips, and which are practiced only at one or two mass meetings before the Yale game, are no more effective than could be expected under the circumstances. Again, if...
"He was one to whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as...