Word: fine
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Upon comparing this valuable work with the Circular of Cambridge, England, no one will fail to be struck with this bold stride toward the English University System. Men of expensive habits may procure a fine library-edition of this compendious volume at the bookstore...
...Monday evening the theatre was comfortably filled, the attraction being Charles Rice's drama, founded upon Dumas's "Trois Mousquetaires." Mr. Charles R. Thorne, Jr., appeared as D'Artagnan, and was well received. Possessed of a handsome face, fine figure, and excellent presence, he looked and acted extremely well. His performance was, however, marred by the excessive friskiness with which he trotted about the stage at all times and seasons, and by a too rapid delivery. Having virtue on his side, and a good deal of profanity in his part, it is needless to say that he created a very...
...Maccabaeus have lately been given by the Handel and Haydn Society, assisted by Mme. Rudersdorff and others. They were enjoyable to those who have patience to listen to heavy music for two or three hours, and to painful efforts of a passee prima donna. These Oratorios may be very fine, but in our private estimation there is too much heavy music and tiresome recitatives, and, unless these are rendered in an artistic manner, combined with voices adequate to the demands of the music, the effect is anything but pleasant to the hearers...
...increase the interest in the matches, and the expenses would not be greater than those attending the first plan, while the receipts would be much larger. In this case the Nine would have to remain in Cambridge for two or three weeks after the close of College, when a fine opportunity for practice would be obtained...
Early in the Freshman year those who profess a love of study and of scholarship are persecuted by a merciless prejudice; later this is changed, and the fine scholar, before he graduates, is honored with general respect. Various circumstances combine to cause this change, but all have their root in reflection upon the part of the students. They see that men of learning are esteemed in society; or perhaps they ask themselves the question, "What am I to do after graduating?" Any such thing does all that was necessary, that is, excites thought; then the boyish prejudices by degrees grow...