Word: waller
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience which crowded Appleton Chapel to its fullest capacity yesterday afternoon had a rare musical treat. The Harvest Cantata, composed by Garrett, with words selected and written by Dr. Waller, was sung by the choirs of Appleton chapel and St. Paul's church, Boston. After a short service conducted by the Rev. F. G. Peabody, the organist introduced the Cantata with a magnificent rendering of the Hallelujah chorus from Beethoven's Mount of Olives. The recitative with which the cantata began was finely given by Richardson of the St. Paul's choir. The Chant of Young Men was especially good...
...Consul General Waller is spoken of as manager of the Yale-Harvard race at New London...
...American" foot-ball eleven made up of college graduates, has been formed in Chicago. The players are as follows: Rushers.- Farwell, Yale; Lockwood, Columbia; Ives, Harvard; Carse, Williams; Bickham, Princeton; Lamb (captain). Yale; Harlan, Princeton; Hubbard, Harvard; Hamlin, Yale; Waller, Princeton. Quarter-back.- B. Hamlin, Yale. Half-backs.- Eldridge, Yale; Crawford, Yale; Cowling. Harvard. Full-back.- Lyman, Yale...
...opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors...
...fire them off. A large number of the men were supplied with tin horns and red flags, besides being completely dressed in red. After marching all over the town of New London and going through various semi-military evolutions the procession halted in front of the office of Governor Waller, and after a "three times three" for the governor of Connecticut, listened to a speech which was frequently interrupted by cheers. After complimenting Harvard on her victory, and referring to Gov. Butler, Gov. Waller said: "It is a newspaper story, and so it cannot be true, that one of your...