Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made the grand tour in a whirl...
...Brooklyn bridge was formally and successfully opened to the public yesterday, with appropriate ceremonies. Orations were delivered by the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt and the Rev. R. S. Storrs. Speeches were also made by the mayors of New York and Brooklyn. A grand pyrotechnic display occurred in the evening, followed by a public reception to the President and other distinguished guests...
...unusual novelty and merit has been prepared, and both organizations have spent a long time in rehearsing. The chief feature of the programme is a "Tragic Cantata," entitled "The Grasshopper," to be given by the Glee Club, accompanied by the Pierian. This cantata was recently given at the Grand Opera House in Baltimore with great success, but has never been heard in Boston. The Glee Club also have some new college songs, which they intend to sing for the first time at this concert. Besides these, several solos, vocal and instrumental, help to make up a specially fine programme...
...advocates of protection. The superintendent of the thread mills at Willimantic, Conn., embraced the opportunity to invite a number of Yale students to inspect the mills. Free transportation and a free lunch induced upwards of two hundred and fifty students to accept the invitation. The excursion was a grand success. The trip was a pleasant one, and the Yale students were much pleased with what they saw. The mills alone were well worth the journey, surrounded as they were by every evidence of happiness and prosperity. The delegation of students left much impressed with the excellent management and the generous...
...annual tour of the colleges, and we thoughtless boys persuaded him to address us, took up a collection for him and then as the climax of our sport sent him to 'Prex's' house to tea, on an assumed invitation from 'Prex' himself. Subsequently I assisted in a grand entertainment in Daniel's behalf, near at home, on which occasion he was presented with the mammoth tin watch and chain, which many of my readers will remember as carried about by him for a long time and exhibited in many store windows...