Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glad to see so important a work placed within the reach of the public; since all who are in any considerable degree sensitive to music ought to have the opportunity of studying it. Those who attend the performance of the play will be obviously helped in their appreciation and enjoyment of it by careful study of the music; while such study cannot but be a source of pleasure and profit, even to those who do not witness the representation of the tragedy. The music consists of a prelude and six choruses, remarkable alike for their dramatic spirit and for their...
...will not reach her where she lies...
...ladies who had just arrived, he proceeded to sit on the edge of the table and open a friendly conversation with them. Naturally they were greatly surprised, and one asked him to pass her the pepper, hoping that he would get down from the table. But he tried to reach it without moving from his place, and suddenly the table turned over...
...beverage, when J., a monitor, espied me. Coming up, he asked me whom it was for. I would not tell him, whereupon he poured the ale out on the ground and broke the jug. Moreover, he reported me to the Faculty. F., by the way, when I managed to reach his room, without the desired liquor, kicked me downstairs, using very bad words the while. So to-day, when I refused to say more about the ale than that I had fetched it, the President pronounced a long polemic against the evils of intoxication and of disobedience, finishing with rusticating...
...next subject was a Senior who had been clubbed to death, while peaceably returning from a literary dinner, by a policeman. The surgeons at once began to examine his brain. After sawing into the skull for more than half an hour, they were unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small...