Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grand Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, is very seriously...
...capable of saying much about the Dvorak symphony. At the end of several of the tough passages the violins would look at each other in mute congratulation that they had come out even. However, it is a grand composition and deserves our admiration even if we cannot understand some parts...
About six millions dollars of endowment are now happily invested. Several millions' worth of grand buildings, with all that man could ask for in the way of libraries, apparatus, etc., are thronged with students. But there is something better yet at Harvard. It takes more than money to make a college-that is, a college of the future. Wisdom cannot be bought. Experience costs time and tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come...
...ticket agent in the Grand Central station in New York is said to have remarked in reply to the return trip that the company seriously thought of raising the rates in view of the fact that Harvard had been defeated...
...felling that time was called too soon in the first half of the New York game, it may not be superfluous to mention it in your columns. According to my watch, which has always kept good time, and to the watches of several of my neighbors on the grand stand, there were just forty-three minutes between the placing the ball in position by the referee and the touchdown by Sears, which ought therefore to have counted. There ought to be some appeal possible from the referee's decision, if it can be shown by concurrent testimony that the time...