Word: groups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under negotiation has made its acceptance impossible. Thus the Greek government offers Delphi to the world, to be sold to the highest bidder. Fully $80,000 is necessary for its purchase, as the village of Castri is situated on the site. For the purpose of raising this money, a group of New York gentlemen are soliciting subscriptions. It will be interesting to note how far the Americans will go for the purpose of advancing a knowledge of the ancient world, so necessary to a complete appreciation of that much-ridiculed "culture" of today...
...Glee Club opened its part of the concert with a group of college songs. The first two songs on the program were "Estudiantina," and the "Cannibalee," both being given for the first time in Sanders Theatre. The enthusiasm with which "Estudantina" was received was fully merited, it being rendered with great vigor and precision. The "Cannibalee." a new song by M. A. Taylor, leader of the Glee Club, and which was given for the first time last evening, met with an enthusiastic reception. The solo was well rendered by Mr. Howard. In the place of a quartette which was next...
...Glee Club followed next with a group of two glees-"Courtship," by A. W. Thayer, and "The Happier Land," by Hatton. "Courtship" was sung with exquisite taste, and showed the long and patient work which doubtless had been given to it. The audience, however, did not seem to appreciate it as fully as they might have done...
...concert closed with a group of college songs by the Glee Club. They were all well rendered, especially "The dude who didn't Dance," sung by Mr. Painter with a quartette accompaniment. This was the hit of the evening, being received with a tremendous burst of applause. Mr. Painter was obliged to sing two extra verses...
...north side of the Mont Blanc group in Europe has been visited, for the 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...