Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that filled the waters were all the more dreadful from being so vaguely described in the Eddic poems. Within Walhalla reigned Odin, the god of wind and war, and his subjects were the soulds of warriors who had perished in battle. No men who died peaceably in bed could expect to have their souls mount to Walhalla, the palace of happiness, where the warrior's life was so idealized as to be a continual round of feasting and revelry...
...take pleasure in publishing today a letter from the Yale News. For some time this year the correspondence was interrupted, owing partly to the annual changes in both boards; but now the two papers are in closer communication than ever. We expect to keep our readers informed of events at Yale by a series of letters from the News at intervals of about two weeks...
...Comforts of Home."All the Comforts of Home" is not exactly the play one would expect to find at the typical theatre of eminently conservative Boston. As a thoroughly laughable farce, however, the play is decidedly successful. The chief adverse criticism to be made is that there is at times not sufficient variety of humor...
...through the females of his line ! This is ignoring mothers with a vengeance ! "Sir Peter Osborne" is an account of the father of Dorothy, wife of Sir William Temple, whose letters have been recently published. "Rudolph" is a darkling sort of story, not good as we are led to expect from the beginning. "Literary Shibboleth" indicates that Agnes Reppher writes with less care than she used to do. "Rod's Salvation," a story in two parts, opens with a pleasant salty flavor of the seaside. The funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots, is as vividly described as if the describer...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Rehearsal at 4 p. m., sharp. Those who expect to play at the Malden concert will attend this rehearsal...