Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Night Watch" is a yachting sketch, told in a straight-forward manner...
Professor F. W. Taussig spoke informally last night to the members of the Finance Club on the silver question, describing in a very interesting manner the present status of the free coinage controversy. He spoke first of the visit of the committee of Boston business men to Washington. In the House Finance Committee before which the Boston men appeared the free coinage advocates were very aggressive. There was a general feeling that if the bill could be brought before the House it would be stampeded through without difficulty; consequently the silver men on the finance committee were constantly trying...
...Cherubini wrote this overture many years ago, he uses the trombones and other instruments in quite modern style, and introduces several grand climaxes. The second piece was a concerto for piano in C minor, by St. Saens. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler played the solo part in a very brilliant manner, overcoming with little effort the technical difficulties of the work. Her tone and touch were sympathetic and thoroughly musical, while her dashing style of execution carried the audience with her from beginning to end. The cencerto itself was interesting, but not remarkably so. The use of the various instruments...
Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel Dr. Peabody opened the Vesper Services with prayer. Rev. Dr. McKenzie followed with a short address on God's manner of fulfilling his promises. He said: When young men start out in life they know that perseverance and industry will bring them success, but this success may be far different from what they anticipated. There are many professors here today who entered college with no thought of teaching, but God saw fit to open up for them this life of usefulness and renown...
...characteristic which a people possesses in large measure is sure to show itself in their organized life. Thus the American people has thoroughly organized popular politics, and the English people society. The Hebrews in like manner organized their religion. Any division of the history of this organization into periods must be understood as only roughly correct. A twofold classification seems however justified by the fact that in Israel, as elsewhere, theology grew up in advance of anthropology. The books of the Old Testament written before and during the exile treat mainly of God; the later books aim to define...