Word: masters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...
...considerations of great thinking men who talk to the student in the hopes that he may learn by the experience of older men, and that what they say to him, may be of some advantage in after life. A solitary lecture by a well known speaker, who is master of his subject, will tend more to broaden the student's intellect, than if he remains at home pouring over some book which might as well be read at any other time. Lectures are now recognized by all students as of paramount importance; the series now being given at Harvard...
This Cremation, then, was an annual ceremony performed by the sophomores about the middle of May in which the principal thing was the burning of some book which the class had finished that term. As the book chosen was always one that the men had found difficult to master, there was general rejoicing at its destruction, although everything was conducted with a great show of solemnity. The students composing the funeral procession began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne...
About thirty plates were set, and after the menu had been served, the toast master, Mr. J. N. Baxter, called for the speeches. Joseph A. Sewall, President of the State University, spoke eloquently of Harvard. The grand old school, he said, was never old and never would be. Its history was rapidly reviewed and the leading part its students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages...
Dvorak, the talented Bohemian has evidently been a close student of Beethoven. In many places through the symphony there are passages which remind one of the great master, although the originality of the work is unquestioned. The first movement is fiery and modulatory. The prevailing tone of the second is much quieter, but it reveals a wonderful depth of earnest feeling. The scherzo is a very taking movement, an odd and pleasing effect being gained by the interruption of the rythm by syncopation. The finale is jovial in character, somewhat after the style of the finale of Beethoven's seventh...