Word: feast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Browning club which holds its meetings at Hotel Brunswick. Col. T. W. Higginson will read the lines of Ganceline, and Mr. J. J. Hayes the part of Valence. The other parts will be read by well-known students of the poet and the affair will doubtless be an intellectual feast to members of the club. The meeting on Tuesday will close the year's work of the society...
There is at present in Boston at 525 Washington Str. an exhibition of two celebrated pictures, which all interested in art ought to see. The pictures are "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Aimee Morat and "The Wedding Feast of Cana" by Paul Veronese...
When the students reached the University Club house after the concert they found a substantial supper spread for them. The feast lasted well into the night, the courses being interspersed with songs both from graduates and undergraduates. The greatest cordiality marked the reception given the members of the clubs in Cincinnati as elsewhere...
Today and tomorrow will occur the annual rush of students from Cambridge to pass Thanksgiving day in some spot more congenial than the precincts of the University. We wish to repeat to all who leave Cambridge, whether they go to feast with their families or to search for a foot-ball game, the warning that has come from official sources; namely, that although the students have never been strictly limited to a holiday of twenty-four hours only at this season of the year, the practice of extending the vacation to several days must not be carried...
...Phillips Brooks preached in the chapel last evening to a congregation which filled every part of the building. The theme of the sermon was the utterance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to the assembled guests at the wedding feast in Canaan: "Whatever He saith unto you, do it." Mary had been dwelling with her Son in Nazareth and there she had studied Him and had gradually come to understand Him. She trusted so completely that, not knowing what Christ would do, she bade the guests do whatever He said to them. She struck the note that has come down...