Word: misses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity eleven had a dinner last night at Miss Cotters. They presented her with a silver bowl as a mark of their appreciation of her kindness toward them this fall...
...sculpture. Besides this there are the ordinary expository articles which one meets so often in magazines, such as "The Republic of Peru," and "A Birds-Eye View of the Sahara." There is but little fiction in the number, a rather conventional story by Grace Blanchard, a sketch called "Pretty Miss Barneveld," and the conclusion of "One of a Thousand." The "curiosities." so to speak, are the fac-sim-iles of Whittier's first two printed poems, or Longfelow's sonnets to Whittier and Tennyson, and Tennyson's acknowledgment of Longfellow's sonnet...
...Frank Bolles has a description of an experience. "Alone on Chocarna at Night." Edward Everett Hale continues his pictures of a "New England Boyhood;" Marion Crawford concludes "Don Orsino" and Mr. W. H. Bishop has another of his papers on "An American at Home in Europe." Miss Agnes Repplier has an attractive article on "Wit and Humor", filled with bright and clever little touches...
...Miss White sang as a second number an Aria from Graun's "Der Tod Jesu." Her rendering was always intelligent and sympathetic The Aria has little of the fire work element about it and therefore to sing it well is to put one's soul into it, not so much being required, perhaps, in the way of mere execution. Throughout, the enunciation was remarkably clear and this is one of the best features of the soloist's work...
...Ophelia's Dying Scene" from "Hamlet" Miss White had a better chance than in the "Aria" for showing what the human voice can do. Great technical skill is here demanded and she did the work justice...