Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Judge Grant said: "We have entered on a new era. The work today is just as intelligent as that of former years. When I compare the Harvard of today with the Harvard of the seventies, I cannot but feel that the young man of the present day has a grand opportunity offered him to battle for the truth. Harvard has advanced, and never offered such chances to a worthy young man as she does today...
...Boston, the author of "Pushing to the Front," was orator. A. P. Stone, '93, was toastmaster. Among the other speakers were E. H. Barnum, of Amherst; A. C. Stone, of Brown; L. R. Hopton, of Yale, who spoke on "College Athletics," and President Carl A. Horstrom, of the grand lodge. Music was furnished by a trio from the Glee Club composed of E. M. Waterhouse '97, R. P. Starkweather, Med., and E. W. Rich...
...entries for the Henley regatta closed yesterday. The entries for the Grand Challenge Cup are Yale, Leander, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Magdalen, Oxford, Thames Rowing Club, London Rowing Club, Nereus Rowing Club, Amsterdam...
...work is given with attention to detail and a general excellence that has never been attained in this city before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come on from New York to join the company. Mlle. Diard was received with remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm Monday night and is established a favorite already...
Next week the Castle Square singers will take up for the first time Donizetti's thrilling grand opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor." This opera is founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...