Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eighteen classes during their whole course more than we can now understand any member of the Faculty to be to us He was a personal friend, a warm hearted and generous helper and councillor to almost every man in college for all these years. It was the fashion for every student to love and honor him. With him has passed away a certain spirit of familiarity and friendship between professors and students, for his retirement came at a time when the University was beginning to grow most rapidly and was losing somewhat the "Harvard spirit." Thus this article leads...
...pictures of the leading American ladies of Paris. "The Spoil of the Puma" is a capital hunting story of the West. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson contributes a brief study of Herrick Ibsen's poems in which is supplemented a portrait of Ibsen. "Crinoline Folly," is a sketch of the crinoline fashion in the past and the present and is very well illustrated. "A Revolution in Means of Communication" is a complete and very interesting description of the telautograph...
...boathouse is a wooden structure, 90x40 feet, and contains room for storing four eight-oared shells, two pair oars, and and several single sculls. The building has been fitted up with all the appliances incidental to an athletic training house, baths and dressing rooms being provided in genuine clubhouse fashion...
Liszt's Symphonic Poems were composed differently from the general fashion consisting, as Wagner said "of the subject, the development, and the further development." "Les Preludes," played last night, is the third in number and was written about 1845. Like all of his poems it has a poetic basis - on a passage in Lamartine's "Meditations Poetiques." It is divided into six sections or movements, each for various instruments. The Andante, written for strings and flutes, has the theme, and the other movements are an Andante for trombones and basses, Allegro for violins and 'cellos, an Allegretto pastorale for harp...
...quality of their work and the average proficiency of their pupils. As the list of schools examined will be published each year in the Catalogue, the public can know when investigations have been made. But as no further information will be given, the public will not know in what fashion the schools have met the investigation or how they stand in relation to each other. This undoubtedly is not to be desired to a great extent, but it is a pity that some idea of the condition of these schools is not to be given. If only the names...