Word: went
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...perfectly organized simplicity. Into the music of Mozart, which was merely a concord of sweet sounds, Beethoven introduced an entirely new harmony, founded openly on "discord." To people in Beethoven's time this produced an involved effect that they were unable to understand or appreciate. But as time went on it became a recognized principle of harmony, without which music would be robbed of most of its strength...
...score of 8 to 3. The team play of the University team was as good as usual, although the quick work of the Law School team often broke it up. No scoring was done by the latter team until the second half when some of the University men went over to the Law School side. The line up was as follows: University -- Laverack, Hoxie, Rumsey, Goodridge, Beardsell, forwards; Hardy, coverpoint; Vanderpool, point; Russell, goal. Law School--Matteson, Hunt, Parker, Hoxie, Stoddard, forwards; Barrows, coverpoint; Drinkwater, point; Goodridge, goal...
...farm at Lexington, where he lived several years. He afterwards studied law and practiced in Boston, where his office was on Court street. He purchased an interest in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in 1862 became editor-in-chief of that paper when Charles Hale '50, the former editor, went to Egypt as United States consul. During the war the Advertiser was conservative and loyal to the Union cause, though it frequently criticised the administration. In 1870 Professor Dunbar sold his interest in the Advertiser and resigned his position as head of the paper...
...heard him for the first time. This dissatisfaction was due to the vagueness of what he said and the rapidity with which he talked. "When I am interesting," he said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost its power. He quietly took his book, and convincingly proved that the pulpit would henceforth be a power. He was a prophet of idealism in the midst of a wave of materialism. At a time when Christianity was narrowly conceived he arose and made...
...went into Sanders tonight to attend Mr. Clapp's lecture I found a crowd of disappointed men coming out, preferring (as one of them said) "to stay away rather than stand up for an hour and a half." It was these men of whom I thought as I sat on the floor beside a venerable gray haired lady who slept peacefully through all, and not of any discomfort of may own--for of course I was an outsider...