Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much we talked! Junior after junior was introduced, and when one set of girls...
...even these epics possessed little merit until they underwent their final transformation into the forms in which we know them, just as the first streaks of a new dawn were beginning to relieve the night of the Dark Ages. At the same time or a little later, the Devil too began to show some improvement. In Dante we see little of him. But where he does appear at the close of the "Inferno," he is no longer the spiteful imp of human or even less than human size, going about the earth to play practical jokes and catch the souls...
...wish to state that the article in Wednesday's Herald headed " Study of Greek Optional," was written at the advice of a prominent member of the faculty in the Greek department. The gentleman informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...
...junior crew is now rowing in the following order : 1, Latham; 2, Vogel; 3, Ayer; 4, Dewey; 5, Codman; 6, Brown; 7, Roberts; 8, Huddleston; 9, Hamlin; Stroke, Harris. The final selection for stroke has not yet been made...
...very different kinds of excellence in the orchestra. The performance of the great Beethoven Symphony was one of the best we have heard, and was quite satisfactory in every respect. It was played with a precision, and with a dash and fire that left nothing to be desired. The final movement in particular, the presto, was given with charming delicacy, and accuracy in the softer passages, and an admirably self-controlled vigor in the louder. It was a great pleasure to hear a Beethoven Symphony, at last, and so finely played; It is to be hoped that Mr. Gericke will...