Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sanders Theatre was crowded last evening by an audience which, even more than at the previous lectures, showed its quick interest and depth of feeling by loud applause at the appearance of each well known face upon the sheet. Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Hooker and, above all, Thomas were enthusiastically received...
...peculiar interest attaches to the campaign through its wildly picturesque and beautiful surroundings, but in the military ability displayed by the great leaders, and in the reckless courage of the troops, Chattanooga has become a monument to the defenders of the Union. Its strategie results cannot be overestimated. Grant, having crushed one flank and the centre of the Confederacy, was now called to crush the one vigorous point of resistance, Lee in Virignia...
...listened yesterday with much interest and enjoyment to the eloquent words of my fellow-countryman, Mr. de Mauny-Talvande, who spoke on moral education in France at the Harvard Pedagogical Club...
...Christmas books is a work on "The Makers of Modern Rom," by Mrs. Oliphant, beautifully illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Briton Riviere. In it Mrs. Oliphant does for Rome what she has already done so successfully for Florence and Venice, and completes a series of striking value and interest...
...debates between eating clubs have continued, and now four have been held in the junior class. Interest in this system is certainly growing and in a short time it will be firmly established. The only point against the system is that it may interfere with the work of the Union, but if a more general interest in debating is brought about by it, the objection is of weight only to the few. It is the custom to have a senior preside and have three judges from outside eating clubs. The junior class has taken up debating for profit...