Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great many of the regular members of the chapel choir will be absent from Cambridge on Sunday next, Mr. Locke requests all students who can sing either tenor or bass and who can be in Cambridge on Sunday, to attend the rehearsal of the choir in Appleton Chapel, Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock...
...been deterred by this rather poor precedent from renewing the venture. They decided to hold a Christmas ball in aid of the 'varsity crew and obtained permission from the faculty to use the library tomorrow night for their ball. No trouble has been spared and everything augurs a great success; the juniors hope to establish an excellent precedent and a prominent feature of Columbia's social life. The library will be decorated with Columbia trophies and with greens, and the law school rooms will be used for a supper after the ball...
...Louis at 7 o'clock the same day. They will be guests at the Southern Hotel during their stay in St. Louis. The concert in St. Louis will be given Friday evening in Entertainment Hall. The students have been invited to attend the Imperial ball, one of the great social events of the year, but as they will be compelled to leave St. Louis very soon after the concert, not more than an hour can be passed at the ball. A special train of two sleeping cars and a baggage car will convey the clubs from St. Louis to Chicago...
...German dinner held by the Deutscher Verein on Monday evening at Young's Hotel was a great success. The eighteen members present enjoyed an excellent meal served in Berlin scyle (except for the colored waiters), and were treated in the intervals between the courses and after desert by a rarefeast of reason and flow of soul. Under the eloquent presidency of Mr. Winkler, the following toasts were made and responded to: Conference Francaise and die Schlacht bei Sedan, Mr. Villard; Der Massigkeitsvereinler and seine Stellung zur deutschen Kultur, Mr. Hoffmanu; Die deutsche Gemuthlichkeit, das funfte Temperament, Mr. Bailey; Die deutsche...
...purpose of getting a clearer idea of the present condition of the glaciers in that region, where the decrease in size of the masses of ice during the past forty years, common to the whole mountain system of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, has excited great attention, not only as a matter of scenic interest, but bearing on glacial theories in general. Some geological work was also done in Southwestern England, and a few of the mines of Devonshire were examined during a hasty trip through that region...