Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Arrangements are being made for a grand athletic carnival at Chicago during the World's Fair. The games will be under the auspices of the Chicago Athletic Club, of which Mr. A G. Spalding is chief supporter. Mr. Spalding has already secured the use of the old Brotherhood Baseball League grounds for September 14, 15 and 16, 1893 and for September 18, if necessary. The carnival will be held in connection with the annual championship contests, which are held by the Athletic Union...
...earliest literature was naturally of a mythical nature, and while we may smile at the old tales and legends it is to our advantage to know something of them. These old works have a poetical as well as a political value for us. At first there were the two distinct literatures of the Northern and Southern Celts, first of a Pagan type, and later influenced by Christianity...
...Black then gave a short sketch of the old Norsemen, their habits and character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told...
...apparatus of the old Yale gymnasium is to be used in the gymnasium of Cobly Academy at New London...
...great work of the evening was Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. which was written in 1802 when the composer was but thirty-two years old. The Symphony is a happy one, is the expression of the emotions of a man who is "at peace with himself and the world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This...