Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three o'clock on Sunday, the last stage of the journey was entered upon, when the party boarded the through cars for Boston. The time passed quickly and without special incident until the party, somewhat diminished in size by the loss of those who stopped on the way to spend the few remaining days of vacation at home, finally arrived in Boston at midnight on Monday...
...concert in the evening was given in Association Hall on Chestnut street. As it was the eve of Christmas, the audience was not as large as might otherwise have been expected, but it made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in size. Of the concert itself, the kindest things were said. One of the city papers asserted that "the Glee Club, as a college organization, is by far the best that has yet been heard in this city; and indeed, was advanced to such a degree of excellence that members of Harvard's old glee clubs, in the days when...
...rain that fell during the afternoon had no perceptible effect upon the size of the audience at the concert in the evening. The Odeon was crowded to its utmost capacity by people who found little fault with the programme. Swarts, '88 and Longworth, '91, both of Cincinnati, were given solo parts ; the former sang his old favorite "The Capture of Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo...
...that all who can have hitherto availed themselves of this rare treat. There are too few opportunities for personal intercourse between scholar and preceptor in the course of our studies for any one to neglect such an opportunity. The pity is that such chances are so rare. The size and unwieldiness of this institution of learning is such as to prevent any but the slightest acquaintance from existing between student and instructor. The converse is the exception, not the rule. Therefore no persuasion of ours is necessary to prevail upon any one to seize this opportunity of coming in personal...
...north side of the Mont Blanc group in Europe has been visited, for the purpose of getting a clearer idea of the present condition of the glaciers in that region, where the decrease in size of the masses of ice during the past forty years, common to the whole mountain system of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, has excited great attention, not only as a matter of scenic interest, but bearing on glacial theories in general. Some geological work was also done in Southwestern England, and a few of the mines of Devonshire were examined during...