Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...programme at the second recital was as follows: Sonate in C minor, Mozart; Sonates, op. 10, No. 3, and op. 110, by Beethoven; Andante Spiniato, Nocturne in A sharp, and Waltz in A flat, by Chopin. It was strongly a representative programme, for Mozart's C Minor Sonate is one of his greatest, and the op. 110 belongs to the last period of Beethoven's creative activity, - the period of the Ninth Symphony and the Mass in D. The Chopin numbers were more pleasing to the popular taste...
...best. With the Elective System and large classes, a man soon loses his class identity; but in after-life it is by this, more than by anything else, that he is remembered by his college contemporaries, so that these contests, which for a time at least draw a sharp line of distinction between the classes, serve a very good purpose...
...natural desire to work by throwing upon him an obligation to do his utmost to forward the cause which he is chosen to assist. The list of those who have received scholarships is a roll of honor. The successful ones are the men who have overcome sharp competition by force of superior ability; they are men in whom have been found parts and powers worthy of recognition and encouragement, not for themselves alone, but also for the general cause of education, whose furtherance they are especially fitted and bound, directly or indirectly, to secure...
...Sharp, Senior, respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...
...Nelson, Edgar Hamilton Nichols, William John Oliver, Henry Blanchard Osgood, William Sigourney Otis, Henry Deeley Page, James Parker, Robert Fletcher Patterson, Daniel Edward Paullin, George Halsey Perley. Edward Emerson Phillips, William Magruder Phillips. John Pickering, George Miller Pinney, William Henry Potter, Robert Johnson Hare Powell, George Hyde Preston, George Sharp Raymer, Edward Prescott Reed. Herbert Howard Roberts. Warren Merton Robinson, Alfred Harri on Rogers, Barney Sachs, Thomas Jordan Sauzade. William Henry Schaefer. Samuel Shepherd. Paul Shorey. James Fulton Slade, Herbert Weir Smyth Alfred Warner Spencer, William Antonius Spirney, George Hermon Steams, William Oskman Stearns, Russell Sturgis, George Eliab Sturtevant, William...