Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...donkey engine," and goes away laughing. Wonder what he is laughing at. I see a good many different things that look like engines, but none with a donkey. Think the captain might have been more explicit. The vessel begins to go up and down a little. Do not want any tea, but go down and eat heartily. The cake was very good. After tea I gradually lose my interest in everything. Am not a bit seasick. Wish the boat would not pitch so. There is no need of it Go to bed at nine o'clock and sleep soundly...
...drapery and lock of hair suggests the attempt of a South Kensington student rather than that of a genuine artist, and the whole spirit is theatrical in its most vulgar sense. Every figure has taken its pose as in a tableau to be gazed at, and the want of unity of idea in the positions or faces is felt more painfully the longer the picture is examined...
THERE are at present stored away in a dusty alcove of Gore Hall fifteen or twenty flags won by Harvard men on various waters. They remain there only by sufferance, and are not only in danger of being utterly ruined, but even now have suffered severely from dust and want of care. Once a year these trophies of palmier regattas are brought to light for a few hours, and then returned to be lost for a year, save to some inquisitive student who may stumble upon them in their exile...
...miss them; and they will be missed still more at the bat, at the oar, and in the editorial sanctum. It is true that since they entered College we have won no University race; but that this failure was owing more to our ill-fortune than to their want of skill and determination, will be made evident by the difficulty we shall have in filling their places. In base-ball they added three more successful years to our long record of victories; and we should be the last to forget that it is to them we owe the establishment...
...Glee Club showed a want of rehearsal, but sang well enough in their first three numbers, receiving an encore on "Fair Rohtraut," and giving "Love's Call" very smoothly. The tender calling of the second basses at the end of the latter piece aroused the expectations of the audience for the bass solo. The "Wein Galop," a sparkling piece of music, was sung unevenly, parts however being very well done...