Word: respects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle Club has within a year or two gained for itself the reputation of being among the live and wide-awake institutions of the college. We had always supposed that this reputation was well deserved, but in this respect we must have been mistaken, if the interest in the annual dinner to-morrow is any criterion. The committee has made arrangements for a dinner of at least twenty-five or thirty members; guests have been invited, several of whom have accepted; the literary festivities of the evening have been arranged by competent persons, and everything has been done to make...
...great continent; their graduates have gone out into all parts, exerting a powerful influence. That you, the delegates from New England colleges should meet here at Harvard, which has so many advantages and which is so central in its position and influence, is indeed a good thing. You all respect bodily equipment and strength, and I, too, have rejoiced in my countrymen as I have seen them at foot-ball or rowing-noble, stalwart, finely built fellows. It is good that you do have this respect, for there is a sound mind in a sound body." You men are intending...
...members, and such misleading statements as appeared yesterday are most damaging to the interests of the hall. There never was a Board of Directors who put more interest in their work than the present board, and any such remarks as your article expressed shows, at least, little respect for the great interest and sacrifice of time of the directors...
...known Orpheus Symphonic poem, and the charming old Hayda variations were each finely interpreted, and served to bring out two very different kinds of excellence in the orchestra. The performance of the great Beethoven Symphony was one of the best we have heard, and was quite satisfactory in every respect. It was played with a precision, and with a dash and fire that left nothing to be desired. The final movement in particular, the presto, was given with charming delicacy, and accuracy in the softer passages, and an admirably self-controlled vigor in the louder. It was a great pleasure...
...university, and will there make known to future generations of students the features of one whose gracious presence was long familiar in the academic halls and grounds, and whose memory is cherished wherever the English language is spoken. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, with the highest respect, your obedient servant...