Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last week there was a grand missionary conference at Princeton, which aroused a great deal of interest among the students, as well as outsiders. Fifty men offered themselves as workers in foreign missionary fields...
After a fortnight of steady work on the part of the gentlemen composing the various committees appointed to make arrangements for the grand parade of tonight, everything is now brought into working order, and we expect our division of the parade to be again, as in years past, the most unique and interesting feature of the whole affair. It is certain that the preparations for the event which have been made this year by the college are on a far more elaborate scale than ever before. Whether this is advisable or not is an open question; but that the Harvard...
...most important interior feature of the new building is the noble library hall, a room of grand proportions, with a triple-arch roof supported by iron truss-work, so that the floor space -113 by 75 feet-is unbroken by divisions. A gallery makes the circuit of it and the walls within reaching distance of the floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with...
...their procession as well as in the Republican. Since the members of the band and drum corps who are opposed to Mr. Blaine are willing to risk for the moment their political feelings and to turn out to help make Harvard's share in the Republican procession a grand success, it seems only courtesy that the Blaine men in the two bodies should return the favor by turning out willingly in the Cleveland procession of Wednesday night. It seems to me that only two objections can possibly be urged ; first, that uniforms may not be ready, and second, that...
...Cleveland and Hendricks Club of Dartmouth expects to have a grand flag raising tomorrow...