Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Association of Western New York gave its fifth annual banquet in Buffalo on the evening of Jan. 7. The spacious banquet room of the Buffalo Club was brilliantly lighted and tastefully decorated. Potted plants were upon the table, and these were garnished with crimson ribbons in honor of the occasion. Quite an elaborate menu was presented, its promise being realized in a most appetizing repast...
...dramatic style in Greek tragedy. The chief parts were played by young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played by a graduate of Girton College, who gave a charmingly earnest and dignified impersonation of the solemn-eyed goddess. On the whole, the play was performed in a very satisfactory manner, and the students are to be congratulated on presenting a work of the highest interest and impressiveness...
...North American Review, in payment for an article, a check which rather staggered him by its munificence. He told one of his classes that his labor had been so small and the recompense was so large that he had concluded to make a present of the latter. Then he gave each member of the class, which numbered 100, a handsome copy of Bacon's Essays...
...Wendell gave cuts in his courses yesterday...
...young lady was looking at three large photographs representing the foot-ball teams of Yale, Princeton and Harvard, for the year 1885. Her father was a Harvard man, her fiance was a Princeton man; and her fiance's father was a Yale man. After scrutinizing each picture critically, she gave as her conviction that the Princeton men were the handsomest, the Harvard men the most distinguished, and the Yale men the most enduring...