Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public performer. Of the playing of the difficult Henselt concert, there is little to be said. The work itself is rather calculated to display technique, in which Miss Bloomfield is not at all lacking, than to present any important musical ideas. What few of the latter it does possess were certainly not brought out in any satisfactory manner; the performance was as hard and dry as it well could be, and entirely lacking in any musical warmth of feeling whatever. The notes were all executed in a very business-like manner: but beyond that there were none of the characteristic...
...said to date from the time of Socrates and Plato; but they are usually considered to have originated in the twelfth century. There are now in Europe, no less than a hundred universities, some of them have been in existence several centuries. Germany and Italy alone possess fifty of these institutions; Eolland, Spain, Russia, and Greece, about twenty five, while Great Britain contains about a dozen. The old universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over...
...team for the ensuing season. While the general attention of the college has been directed hitherto more towards other branches of athletics. The lacrosse team has still given very evident signs of life and has shown itself in everyway worthy at a higher recognition by the students. While we possess material and facilities for the successful support of a lacrosse team of the first merit, the opportunities offered the team for practice with the various local clubs about Cambridge, might be used to the most practical advantage. Much of the apathy in athletic team work which is complained of among...
Here at Harvard there is a large number of men who possess a great deal of interest and considerable skill in the art of photography. The recent exhibition contained the result of the labors of several students, and some of the exhibits sent in by Harvard men took a very high rank. AS the interest is so general, we are not surprised to hear rumors of the proposed formation of a Harvard Amateur Photographic Society. The present year seems to be a fruitful one for the birth of societies and associations, and we see no reason to prevent one more...
...editorial in a revert issue of the Yale News urging the freshman to show that they "possess the necessary amount of Yale sand," seems to us at least superfluous. The Yale foot ball game has been distinguished among college sports for its rather too sandy character. -[Vassar Miscellany...