Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first bout of the light-weight, Austin, '87, against Hillebrand, '87, resulted in a victory for the former, who thereby won the light-weight cup. The sparring was hard and marked by much clinching. The three rounds were so close that a fourth had to be fought to decide the contest...
...were Nathan Hale, Jr., Rufus King, and James Russell Lowell, all of the class of 1838. An amusing feature of the magazine was the publication of extracts from rejected manuscripts under the title of "Shyllyoliana," The paper always led a rather dubious existence and, after the publication of the fourth volume, lack of support caused its suspension and death...
...phenomenal advance in Greek sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings...
There were but two vacant seats in Chapel yesterday on the opening of the Vesper service. After a short prayer by Rev. Phillips Brooks, the choir sang Tuckerman's "God so Loved the World." After the reading of the thirty-fourth Psalm, the "Lord God of Abraham," from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," was powerfully rendered by Mr. D. M. Babcock of Boston, a member of the class of '77. The Rev. Francis G. Peabody delivered the address, his text being taken from the third chapter of Revelations. We are as men who stand on the threshold of knowledge...
...fourth annual dinner of the Phillips Exeter Academy alumni was held on Saturday night at the Hoffman House in New York...