Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selection was well executed and evidently found great favor with the audience. Four songs by the Glee club followed, of which the "Cannibalee" was best liked. Mr. Fullerton sang the solo part in this, and an encore was demanded. The next on the programme was a Stranss polka "For Love of Her" arranged for the Banjo club. The selection was played with great spirit and precision. The soloist of the evening was Mr. L. A. Corne who played a selection from Rode's Seventh Concert for the violin. Mr. Corne played with considerable feeling and depth but evidently lacked...
...Polka, For Love of Thee. Stearns Arranged by E. L. Osgood, '91. Banjo Club...
...went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister...
...last year was extremely creditable. From every point of view the trip was successful, and it is difficult to see how anything but good resulted. The concerts were, in reality. Harvard reunions, giving the graduates in the distant states chances which no other occasions would afford-to renew their love and loyalty for the college by the reawakening of old memories and by mingling with the undergraduates of today. We sincerely hope that the matter will be carefully considered by the faculty before the petition is finally acted upon...
Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...