Word: riches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lecocq wrote the score for "Le Jour et la Nuit" in two months. He usually takes plenty of time for composition. The music is decidedly charming, possessing much of the rich, southern voluptuousness of Audran's melodies...
...this a College? Yes, this is a Gall-age (pat. applied for). What does a College consist of? A Gym-na-si-um, a Fac-ul-ty and An E-lec-tive Sys-tem. Is the College rich? No, the College is poor, So poor that it can-not Provide Chairs for its Professors and So they are obliged to Sit on the Students...
...attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such an idea. Further: "The idea that a certain amount of information and a certain familiarity with the lines of thought...
...exception of the large bell in the parish church of Montreal, Canada, which weighs 29,500 lbs, Notre Dame possesses the largest in America. It has been heard on a clear day as far as 27 miles to the west and 24 to the east; it has a rich tone, and as a work of its kind is unsurpassed. Its weight without yoke or hangings is 13,000 Ibs. - [Scolastic...
Truly "every shining hour" at Lasell is crowded with something to be seen, or heard, or learned, until one begins to wonder how much of all this rich material one's mind is laying up in store, and how much it treacherously lets slip, since minds are sometimes quite as lazy as their owners. To be sure it's a very deplorable habit, but one which we are obliged to recognize...