Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paris has her seamy side! The grand boulevards, the stately buildings, the culture, fashion, wealth, gaiety, are what we usually see. But in the old quarters of the city are dark, crooked streets and dens of shamelessness and crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets...
...another step remained to be taken in the evolution of the Devil. In Dante the Devil is still powerless against the Almighty. He is chained up in the lowest circle of hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like...
...long walk through the yard has again assumed its resemblance to the grand canal of Venice...
...recent Glee Club concert at Yale was the time chosen by the Freshmen of that college for a grand demonstration. Say the News: "At last came the time for '88. A timid figure appeared underneath the footlights and liberated several toy balloons, to which the numerals '88 were attached. Unfortunately they were set free too near the boxes, and several eager Sophomores were on hand in the third floor box to seize the offensive figures. The joke was well planned, Freshmen, and, of course, you can't be expected to think of everything...
...ought to be the equal of the Glee Club of any college in the country. So Princeton, which will have her Class Glee Clubs, and Yale, with a second Glee Club and a Freshman club to draw from, will soon be able to compete on equal terms in another grand contest for the championship, which will have the advantage that no blood will be shed, although we presume the Record and the Princetonian would never acknowledge which side was beaten. Some permanent arrangement for musical instruction will probably be made, if these first attempts meet with the success which they...