Word: touches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject to its instructions, seems also to be a good one. The duties of permanent secretary have really come to be too onerous for a member of the University to have upon his shoulders, and further the change seems to have the advantage of placing the auditor in closer touch with the ordinary questions under discussion, whille avoiding the possibility of his taking a too influential position...
...busy people who have not the time to create fancies for themselves. If the purpose alone be considered, the book might be called successful. The verses are written in an offhand manner, with sometimes careless metre. The point usually turns on some modern "gag," but some of the verses touch a serious chord, while many have a note of sweetness...
...proposed association will tend to remedy this. Its permanent secretary will be ready at all times to furnish to members accurate information and to receive suggestions and information from them. The executive committee will be in position to take advantage of such suggestions and information. It will be in touch with graduates and undergraduates, coaches and players, and its familiarity with past experience and present necessities will make it an effective agency in bringing about the unity of effort now lacking...
...college or are in close touch with college affairs, Mr. Newell's death in particular, by its very suddenness and the horror of its form, is a calamity hard to realize and accept. His unselfish service to the University, continued without interruption after his graduation, taught successive classes of undergraduates to admire and respect him as a pattern of all that is best in the athletic side of college life, while his breadth of character, and his quiet, steady success in other fields, gave great promise of a useful career in the future...
...best number on the programme was a violin solo "La Tzigane" by Carl S. Oakman 1900. His touch was delicate and his playing finished. He also played as encores, "Obertass" by Weiniawski and "Trumere" by Schumann...