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Word: scene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wise to aid the poor student by scholarships and loans of money it is even wiser to help him to use his vacation in such a way as to enable him to add to his income and at the same time to gain rest by a change of scene and occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 5/27/1887 | See Source »

...left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings a gag song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter Dorothy and Pricilla who sing a nursery hymn very effectively, accompanying it with a very gracefully danced step. Suddenly two reservation Indians in all the paraphernalia of their lucrative profession burst in upon them and carry them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "John Harvard" at Union Hall. | 4/2/1887 | See Source »

...Yale have written a novel the scene of which is laid at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/22/1887 | See Source »

...negative side, it was argued that a university club would do very little to break up cliques and factions in the college. It would not even reduce the friction between them. The club would be the scene of political intrigues, which would be without a parallel outside of those notorious faction fights, which have done so much "to make Yale infamous." At the present time, there is less hostile feeling between different societies at Harvard, considering its size, than at any other college in America! Such a club as the one proposed would not tend to promote sociability among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Bicycle Club house was a scene of brilliancy and gayety Saturday evening, when Thomas Stevens, the hero of the trip around the world, was given a reception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/2/1887 | See Source »

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