Word: performances
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hofmann concert, to night, in Music Hall, the orchestra, conducted by young Hofmann, will perform his newly-composed "Polonaise Americaine." There will be another matinee tomorrow afternoon...
Manager Keyes, who is now hard at work obtaining subscriptions, has a duty which is not a light one to perform, and the committee appeals to every one in the University to do his utmost to render the work of Mr. Keyes as successful as possible. Messrs. Hallowell, Holden and Wood, '88, Storrow, McPherson and Moore, '89, and Crehore and Slocum, '90, have volunteered to assist Mr. Keyes, and are deserving of no little credit for the energy with which they have worked and their gratifying success thus...
...best form of exercise, but the doctor was not familiar with the light shells and the sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely recommending to his son, the governor of New Jersey, a course of life that would make his heart and stomach perform their functions healthily. Whatever may be the one best form of exercise, if a person is to have only one, it is certainly not boxing...
...salary of $1.500, equal to an addition of four cents to the weekly board bill of each man. But part of this could be justly paid by reducing the steward's "contingent compensation," as the latter's duties would be much lessened. The steward and directors now nominally perform the duties of "inspector," but the former has not the necessary time and the latter cannot be expected to perform such a disagreeable daily task. Thus by the addition of eight cents to the board bill, the quality of the food could be greatly improved, and as the experiment could...
President Whitney, of the West End Railway Company, which now controls all the Boston and the Cambridge street-railways, says that electric cars are not yet in a state of perfection to perform practical work, and that he will probably institute a system of cable cars...