Word: lover
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from all parts of this and other lands, its commanding position in the middle region of the country, where it stands as a new Harvard, Yale, or Johns Hopkins, attending to that expensive highest instruction which the smaller colleges cannot of themselves supply; all these things must lead a lover of learning to welcome the new foundation as a splendid addition to the educational resources of the country, and may well make any man eager to serve upon its staff...
...singing was much enjoyed, the old piece of Croft's being especially good. The anthems sung were: "The Radiant Morn has passed away." - Woodward; Solo, "Jesus Lover of My Soul." - Tours; "Whither Shall I Go." - Croft. Soloist, Mr. E. F. Webber, of Temple quartet...
Yale has attempted an answer to the statement of the Harvard manager and captain, but it is wofully weak. Harvard cannot agree to any such unheard of propositions as come from Yale, and in its position will be supported by every lover of fair play...
...Unrepentant" is a psychical study of much force. There is a startling vividness and originality of touch in the descriptions of the death-bed conversation of a woman "who deserted husband and child to follow a lover," and who acknowledged that it was almost divine to sin as she did, "not with a mean desire to cheat the devil or God, but freely anxious to have what she sinned for and not to repine." Certainly the theme is one which we seldom see elaborated...
...fully illustrated, and appeals to a very wide and general interest in music, it being the first of a number of articles of high character on music to appear in the Century during the coming year. Mrs. Gere draws an exquisite comparison between Burns and Mozart which every lover of poetry and music should read. Says Mrs. Gere: "The genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there is a certain kinship in the spirit that underlies the pathetic ballads of the one and the great tone-poems of the other...