Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clubs reached Cincinnati at noon on Monday, December 23, and were met by a number of graduates, who took the men in automobiles to the Cincinnati Country Club, where they were guests of the Harvard Club at luncheon. After luncheon the men disbanded for the afternoon, some going to the University Club, the hospitality of which was extended to them, and others visiting the various objects of interest in the city. The first concert was given in the evening at Odeon Hall before a small but appreciative audience. After the concert, a reception was held in honor of the Clubs...
Christmas breakfast of egg-nogg, which the men enjoyed without "having to be shown," the members of the Clubs were the guests at luncheon of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Markham at the Country Club. In the centre of the table was a Christmas tree, hung with a large number of little red stockings, which were later distributed to the guests. After luncheon there was dancing for about half an hour, followed by a hurried departure for the city, where afternoon tea was served at Mrs. Edward Mallinckrodt's. In the evening the men saw Raymond Hitchcock in "A Yankee...
...dance given for them by Mrs. Walter C. Larned. The concert in the evening at Orchestra Hall was the crowning success of the whole trip. An audience of two thousand completely filled the hall, and gave the Clubs as hearty a welcome as they have ever received. Every number was encored, and the Glee Club Quartet was received even more enthusiastically than ever before. The concert was followed by a smoker at the University Club, and a cotillion given by Mrs. Logan...
...often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make...
...only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom both physical and intellectual. he said that the Jews had chosen and excellent place in this University for a seed ground for the development and spreading of their ideals, and that although their number was small, they should not be discouraged, as it was rapidly growing. President Eliot then pointed out that as result of their generations of hardship, they had lost their physique and martial spirit, and advised and them go to in for more out-of-door life and to enter...