Word: feast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial...
...great football game between the two leading teams of the South at that time; in the evening from 7. 30 to 10. 30 there will be a Greek play; at 10.30 begins the grand banquet, where at least eight hundred loyal Greeks will sit down to a royal feast...
...feast was an elegant one. Henry E. Alexander, an enthusiastic favorite with Princeton undergraduates, acted as president of the feast. After a pointed but brief address Mr. Alexander introduced Lloyd McK. Garrison, who responded to the toast "Harvard." Probably no Harvard speaker ever appeared more favorably before a Princeton audience. General Horace Porter then spoke on "The men of letters in the world." Gen. Porter's speech was brilliant, witty and full of pleasantries. Professor William M. Sloane responded to the toast "The debate." Professor Henry F. Osborne made the last speech on "Intercollegiate contests." Prof. Osborne's remarks abounded...
...William B. Frisbie, D. D. of the Church of the Advent, Boston, addressed the St. Paul's Society last night in the Society room. He said: Today is the feast of St. Matthias, the apostle chosen to fill the place of Judas. In the study of Mathias we have almost nothing to guide us, we know only that it was he whom God chose to be his apostle. This alone shows that he must have been a man who had been with Christ and had known him, who was full of religious zeal and who was ready to sacrifice himself...
...clubs boarded a sleeper for an all night ride to Cleveland. Breakfast was waiting at the "Hollenden" where they were to stop till Tuesday morning. R. E. Phillips of the Glee Club gave a luncheon and sleigh ride to six fellows. At about four. thirty men went to a feast at Mrs. Edward's on Prospect Street. That tea will long be remembered. Cleveland is distinctly a Yale town but every body was glad to give Harvard a chance and Harvard accepted its chance in earnest. There was more cordiality in the treatment of the clubs here than in some...