Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit of his class, it seems a pity that so few men appreciate the opportunity. They seem afraid to listen to any lecture outside the required three hours a week. Yesterday Mr. Davis gave a very interesting talk on volcanoes in U. 4, showing some very fine and rare views. Only twelve men were present, and they fully appreciated the kindness of Mr. Davis...
...kept up until next week. The banquet is being furnished by the caterer, Lucius. Among other things on the menu, which were engraved on gold, we notice "perfumes of Araby, fried in crumbs; Phrygian zephyrs, with June-bug wings; hum of Cicadas, with dissolved pearl sauce, beside many other rare and novel dishes. As we go to press the company are enjoying themselves immensely, three have been poisoned and the rest are all drunk...
...college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back and give the Princeton students the liberty and freedom that we have here. We think that then disturbances such as have troubled the quiet people of Princeton lately would become as rare as they are in Cambridge...
...athletic activities?' You cite the phrase, and the alliteration makes it a noticeable one. But athletic activity is, we should suppose, quite out of the line of most of those who are called upon to take it in charge. Then, again, though the faculty at Yale may at rare intervals afford the students amusements, to ask them, or any other faculty to undertake the business of providing regularly attractive amusements, is no joke...
...series of concerts now being given in Sanders Theatre has been much enhanced by the introduction of a soloist for each evening. Now that we have heard Mrs. Henschel, all would certainly be pleased to hail Mr. Henschel also in a vocal solo. The exhibition of his rare powers in this direction would be of as much gratification to his audience as his success as an orchestra leader has been, and it is to be hoped that we may hear him as a soloist at an early date...