Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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YALE agrees that we shall name the time and place of the regatta. The time will be June 30, and the place, probably, Springfield...
...Homer not only divided his great work into twenty-four books, but, according to the opinion of some very sagacious; critics, hawked them all separately, delivering only one book at a time (probably by subscription). He was the first inventor of that art, which hath lain so long dormant, of publishing by numbers, - an art now brought to such perfection that even dictionaries are divided and exhibited piecemeal to the public; nay, one bookseller hath (to encourage learning and ease the public) contrived to give them a dictionary in this divided manner for only fifteen shillings more than it would...
...Keeping time, time, time...
PROFESSOR PAINE'S Symphony was given for the first time on Wednesday evening, by the Thomas orchestra; and was heard, seemingly with great pleasure, by a large and appreciative audience. That the Symphony should bear the test of being played in the same concert with the second of Beethoven, is sufficient evidence of its intrinsic merit; the first and third movements being particularly beautiful. The adagio was received with unmistakable enthusiasm; and at the end the audience insisted on calling Mr. Paine before the house. Although written in strict conformity with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner...
...that the true interests of Harvard and Yale are identical, that our traditions are similar, and our sympathies common. Any feeling of hauteur or superiority with which Harvard undergraduates may have regarded Yale at the founding of that institution has certainly perished in the lapse of time. Any such feeling should certainly now vanish before Yale's fair escutcheon, blazoned, as they justly remark, with the noble achievements of one hundred and seventy years...