Word: feast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred men have signed, whereas a request for such a radical change in the college arrangements should be backed by a majority of the students. There is another objection to the petition which was not foreseen when it was started, which is that Easter is such a moveable feast that it would not do to fix the vacation by it. For these reasons we have withdrawn the book which contains the petition...
...audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring exertions the entertainment of the evening was entirely due. Her most applauded poem was a "Quatrain on the Years." The programme was truly a literary feast, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by every one present...
...Board of Editors of the CRIMSON held their semi-annual dinner at the Parker House last evening. It was truly a "feast of reason and a flow of soul," but it was also a "feast of fat things." The speeches were witty, the songs weary jolly, the dinner was excellent-in fact nothing was wanting to make the evening a complete success. Cheers were given with a will in response to the toasts of the University Foot-Ball Eleven, Crew, Nine, Cricket Eleven and Lacrosse Team. The officers of the dinner were as follows: President, James G. 'King, '89; orator...
...programme for the reading of Mr. Irving and Miss Terry at Huntington Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock is as follows: Gemini at Virgo (Calverly), Miss Terry; Feast of Belshazzar (Arnold). Miss Terry; Hamlet and the Players (Shakspeare), Mr. Irving; Copper field and the Walter (Dickens), Mr. Irving; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Miss Terry; Edmund Kean (English Actors), Mr. Irving...
...Christmas day, the Earl of Foix, according to his usual custom, held a great feast, and after dyner he deperted out of the hall, and went up into a galarye of twenty-four stayres of heyght. It being exceedingly cold the Earl complained that the fire was not large enough, when a person named Ervalton of Spayne, went down stayers, and beneth in the court he saw a great many of asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back...