Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last meeting of the Conference Francaise, Mr. T. Henckels, of the French department, gave a delightful causerie on California. The subject was all the more delightful because of the personal element introduced with great charm and grace by the speaker. The audience, among whom were several Californians, were in sympathetic touch with the speaker, who, it is hoped will again favor the Conference with an account of another of his personal experiences...
Twenty-five men began training Monday for Columbia's track athletic team The old men who will train are Kingsley, (Captain), Harding. Bowman, Morris, Pell, Harrison, Grace, Street, Stout, Iglehart, Leavy, Earle, Brown, De Salazar, and Lawson...
...best poems and the poet became a man about town. Society everywhere was intriguing for place or power. But the influence of the times on literature was not wholly bad, for the wits corrected many gross faults that had come in with restoration, and brought infinite good sense with grace and terseness of expression...
...success of his Homer drew out much adverse comment from minor writers, and to crush them. Pope wrote his Dunciad. His epistles, moral essays and satires occupied his last fourteen years. His Essay on Man, although never regarded as of any philosophical value, shows well in its grace and smoothness of diction, the powers of the poet. His last years were given to didactic satires, in which he is without a rival...
...choirs of Appleton Chapel. St. Pauls Church, Boston and Grace Church, Newton, will give a concert in Tremont Temple tomorrow evening in aid of the Free Hospital for women. Beside giving the pleasure of hearing fine church music, the concert will have a distinct educational value. The growth of English church music since the time of Christopher Tye will be illustrated by a programme of ten pieces arranged in chronological order. The solo parts will be sung by Masters Macdonald, Hill and Wilcox, trebles, Mr. C. N. Sladen counter tenor, Mr. George J. Parker, tenor and Mr. Heinrich Meyn, bass...