Word: wander
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such men, and for the few who can not afford the expense even of so slight and simple entertainment, a two-day or three day celebration would be a calamity. They would be forced to wander about with nothing to do but envy the elaborate hospitality of their richer class-mates; and the inevitable result would be that they would cease to entertain at all. Class Day would thus become a mere fashionable show, full of extravagance; a festival which the rich man would naturally enjoy, but which the poor man would have no share in. Any change which could...
...back to 5 on Sundays. Now it happens that on that particuler day the dinner hour at Memorial Hall is 5.30 instead of 5. This leaves half an hour in which students not rooming close to the two halls and having to use both are forced to wander aimlessly about. The Fogg Museum doors are closed at the same hour (5 o'clock), and recourse to the Gymnasium is not to be had that day. The lack of coincidence of hours is probably accidental and might be easily remedied to the advantage of a large number of members...
...have already made a good beginning in preparatory schools, but after leaving these schools, our artists wander from the right path. The knowledge of the life-size is the great inspiration of this movement, and it toward this as a study that our artists must turn their steps. With this object in view we must follow the example of the modern schools which are nearest us and then, for the highest development, turn to the ancient masterpieces...
...college who make friends the beginning of a new year bring with it a strange complexity of feeling. As we wander about on a first day like this there is something which we miss and miss sadly. A class has gone and many faces which college intimacy has made dear to us are no longer to be seen. We try to stifle the feeling by burying ourselves in the realities about us. At the same time we have a feeling that sadness is out of place at the beginning of the year. Then we reason with ourselves and we find...
...last number was Wagner's Overture "The Flying Dutchman." This was the first work in which the composer attempted to characterize persons by fixed musical phrases. The familiar story of the poor mariner who was doomed to wander over the ocean in endless misery is well illustrated by the progress of the Overture. The conflicts in his mind as well as the conflicts in the elements about him are pictured very vividly by the variety of themes and the manner in which they are worked out. The Overture is a fine piece of music picturing...