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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR PAINE'S recital in Boylston last evening drew a larger number than the hall could comfortably seat. The following pieces were played: Cat's Fugue, Scarlatti; French Suite, - Gavotte and Gigue, - Bach; Sonata in D'minor, Op. 31, Beethoven; Nocturne in E major, Op. 62, Chopin; Kreislereana, Op. 16, Schumann; Characteristic Piece, Funeral March, "Welcome," Paine...
...some time occupying an almost unknown grave in the safe at the Bursar's office. They have been recently brought to light, and are now to be completely disinterred and again devoted to their proper use as prizes in the Spring Races. The Graduates' Cup, which is much the larger, and is altogether quite an elegant article, is to be the prize for the six-oar race, and the Beacon Cup for the four-oar. Both cups will be placed on exhibition before the time of the races; and it is intended to affix to each a parchment, on which...
...legend of just men, noblesse oblige; or, Superior advantages bind you to larger generosity...
...daughters this, and when they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts, no larger than a man's hand, and has increased till its shadow rests over the most remote parts of Asia." He built up Neophogen until now "she shines with glittering magnificence to the far distant Cumberland, and is the very goal of human perfection. Her little world of literature, the College...
...afford to have, or growing out of the envy of the neighbor caused by his inability to enjoy what his richer classmate has. But surely this is a puerile objection! Why, on the same principle, should one man wear a better coat than another? Why do some men have larger, more expensive, better furnished rooms than others? Why, again, does one man dare to board at an eight-dollar club-table for fear his less fortunate classmate, who is subject to the slow starvation of Mr. Farmer's table, may be envious of his better lot? Simply because...