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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recollected, this column, last fall, offered two cups of $25 each for any man who would beat 4 min. 50 sec. in a mile run, or 7 min. 40 sec. in a mile walk. These prizes will be given, as per agreement, at the Spring Games, provided that any one makes the required time. We shall, however, have a competent professional judge to watch the walking, and contestants will be handled with very little mercy unless they walk in strictly fair style. This is the only protection we claim, and it is, we think, perfectly fair to all parties...
PROFESSOR PAINE has given the second and third of his piano recitals; the one took place on Thursday evening, the 10th, and the other on Tuesday evening, the 15th. He may well feel flattered by his audiences, for to make one's way through the Yard in a violent rain, even during daylight, is a hazardous undertaking, as we know from bitter experience; and on a dark night the paths, if discovered at all, are far from inviting. Notwithstanding, however, the most unfavorable weather, Boylston Hall was filled, even the aisle-steps being used for seats. We are still confident...
...programme at the second recital was as follows: Sonate in C minor, Mozart; Sonates, op. 10, No. 3, and op. 110, by Beethoven; Andante Spiniato, Nocturne in A sharp, and Waltz in A flat, by Chopin. It was strongly a representative programme, for Mozart's C Minor Sonate is one of his greatest, and the op. 110 belongs to the last period of Beethoven's creative activity, - the period of the Ninth Symphony and the Mass in D. The Chopin numbers were more pleasing to the popular taste...
FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...
THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...