Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With good weather the bicycle meet this afternoon should be a great success and of the utmost interest to all men in college. The Bicycle club has gone to much trouble to arrange this meeting, the first of the kind in the history of our college athletics, and the field of entries is large. In the past year or two bicycling has developed to an astonishing extent at Harvard, and we can boast of several of the fastest riders in intercollegiate athletics. This afternoon the races will be close, and will be doubly interesting from the fact that...
...meeting was a most congenial one in every way. Professor Wentworth's reception was cordial in the extreme, and the interest manifested by every member in the united welfare of Exeter and Harvard was great. If the enthusiasm which is now shown by the members of the Exeter club be kept up, the result cannot help being of much benefit to the academy...
Tonight occur the annual theatricals given by the Conference Francaise. This society has from the start shown great activity, and the members have always taken great interest in everything which it has undertaken. The performance this evening promises to be a great success. We understand that the soclety will devote its receipts from the performance to defray the expenses of M. Coquelin's lecture lass fall. Tickets went very rapidly then, and we see no reason why many tickets should not be disposed of this evening. The plays are in modern French and can be readily understood by everyone having...
...that all the French governments of the past century have proclaimed their acceptance of the principles of the Revolution. The first Napoleon, though at heart opposed to the liberty of the people, found himself unable to withstand the current of events, and even claimed for himself many of the great reforms which the impulse of freedom produced. Even when the old dynasty returned in 1815 and attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon's They could not restore a trace of the social inequalities...
...consequences of this festival will probably be very great, they will be felt chiefly through their influence upon education. The French Revolution will henceforth be held up to the schools and colleges of France, just as the American Revolution is in the United States. Hence succeeding generations will grow up filled with the spirit of republicanism, and the benefits of the great Revolution will be secured for future years...