Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Upon hearing of the death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory...
...English colt Bruce won in the race for the Grand Prix-de-Paris...
...year to year, increasing as the years roll on. A stranger at Harvard yesterday would never have known that the day was a holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial...
...Epsom yesterday the Epsom grand prize was won by Quicklime, Marden second. The royal stakes race was won by Limestone, Silver Bell second...
...Decrow, Yale, '80, reports that he has concluded his trip to solicit funds for Yale's new athletic grounds, and has secured subscriptions of between $20,000 and $25,000. The grounds will be formally opened next season with a grand stand accommodating 2000 spectators and the most complete equipment of any athletic ground in the country...