Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty do not heal so readily as at eighteen. Perhaps because he felt that he really was being passed by the rising generation. Perhaps because with his additional years, additional responsibilities, professional or domestic, have been thrown upon him. He knows he was right in giving up the grand old game for one or all of these reasons, but he regrets having done so all the same, especially when he is looking on at it. A man's foot-ball life is short, but it is very merry, and his memories and reminiscences are often very curious and interesting when...
...students of the University of Berlin recently celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luther, by a grand "Festcommers." Being desirous to see a good specimen of this thoroughly German student-custom, we procured a ticket and on the appointed evening made our way to the place of meeting. This was a large hall, hired for the occasion. The platform was decorated with flags, the national coat of arms and other emblems, and was occupied by two or three rows of tables. Down the hall, al right angles to the platform, ran fourteen long tables with about eighty...
...first speaker, one of the Professors. This gentleman delivered a short address upon Luther and his work, and concluded by calling upon those present to sing "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott." The whole assembly rose, and led by the orchestra sang the first verse of Luther's grand triumphal hymn. a few minutes were now spent in conversation and drinking of beer, and than the Commander made a short speech appropriate to the occasion and called for the health of the Emperon. This was drunk in most approved fashion and a verse of the National Anthem sung. The manner...
Philadelphia is to have a grand bicycle tournament next June. The tournament will last three days. A half mile track will be built for the occasion, and will be the best that can possibly be made...
...Yale College Bicycle Club have voted to hold a "grand race meeting in the early part of June." Mr. G. M. Hendee is expected to break every record from one to ten miles...