Word: set
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Canoe Club will hold a set of scratch races tomorrow at four o'clock. The course will be from the bridge above the boat house, rounding the buoy above the lower bridge and back to the boat house; distance about half a mile. The following are the classes...
...audience in the Athenian theatre included the every-day class of citizens. In the front row were the priests and magistrates; behind them the body of the senate and other dignitaries. There was a place set apart for the ladies; women, however, do not appear to have been present at the performances of comedy. The people came early in the morning; they were garlanded, and brought their lunches. Tragedy was played in the morning, and comedy in the afternoon. From 20,000 to 30,000 people attended these performances, and, it is said, were deeply moved by the representations...
...Set of Dickens' Works 15 vols., $10.00; published...
...Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan employed in all Greek theatres; the seats rose in semi-circular tiers from the orchestra as a converging point, and at the back of the orchestra, facing the seats was the building set apart for the actors. The dimensions of the theatre were very large; it would doubtless accomodate the whole body of Athenian citizens...
...Member of the Annex" has not been particularly happy in her contribution of "The Slow Set at the Harvard Annex." The style is rambling and uncertain, and conveys no very distinct ideas...