Word: play
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Captain of the Foot-Ball Club has received an answer from Columbia. They will be unable to play us this spring, owing to the impossibility of getting up a twenty during the boating season. They express a wish, however, to play us in the fall...
...Chess Club is soon to play some practice games with the Boston Chess Club...
...best effort of the Pierian was the "Blumenlied" by Lange, which was played with feeling, and with due regard to expression. If they applied themselves more to music of this description, they would have more uniform success; for, while the movement from the Haydn Symphony was played well, still there was an unsteadiness in some parts, which proved them amateurs, which one would hardly have thought had he heard them play only the Blumenlied...
...alternate Mondays, it is now proposed to read some play of the author treated of in the previous lecture, the different parts having been previously distributed among the members by the committee in charge of the literary exercises. This distribution will be made far enough in advance to allow ample time for preparation, and, to insure a better understanding of the play, it may be found expedient to appoint some gentleman for every play, to study and be ready to explain any obscure allusions or phrases...
...Monday next M. Ley of Boston will lecture before the Club on the subject of Beaumarchais; and the following Monday "Le Mariage de Figaro," a play of this author, will be read by the Club, who have recently been presented with a number of copies of this play sufficient for the purpose. M. Bocher and M. Jaquinot have both, with their usual kindly interest in the welfare of the Club, expressed themselves ready to lecture before it occasionally. While all this is being done in the interests of the Club, it still remains a hard fact worthy of the attention...