Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There flourished last year a society, known to some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression...
...effect that after the present college year the Junior Promenade could not be held unless within the first two weeks of the winter term, was published this morning; it has aroused considerable indignation. The cardinal virtue of this most notable social gathering of the year has been the relief it affords to a long and dreary session. It would be premature to predict at present that any definite action will be taken by the students...
...decorations on Beck Hall and Hilton Block are especially fine. The side of Beck Hall facing Harvard square is resplendent with the gay colors of the different classes, above which the figures 1636-1886 stand out in bold relief...
...chairs; and busy waiters are dashing madly about with fluid refreshment. Above us looms the beautiful facade of the castle, its grim statues and stone gorgons, its fluting and arabesques, all that is uncouth and grotesque and mournful and majestic, flooded over with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other's hands and recalling by-gone days; grave professors grow ruddy and boyish; the younger students...
...succeeded in exhausting, not only his subject but his entire audience. The Grand Duke and the Duchess, indeed, preserved an admirable appearance of attentiveness; but everyone else began to fidget at the end of the second hour and hailed the peroration with an enthusiasm in which a feeling of relief was plainly perceptible. The oration dealt with the history of the university and with the causes and proofs of her almost unrivalled glory. It was far too comprehensive for me to attempt any analysis of it here...