Word: elders
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...house, on the 10th of this month. They have since appeared in an almost nightly change of familiar operas. Many of the troupe, as Duplan and Mezieres, are old favorites, always excellent and always welcome. Mlle. Marie comes to us with the perfect musical and dramatic education of her elder sisters, and with the additional attraction of youth. Her acting is a nightly surprise, and her singing is worthy of serious opera. Her Clairette, Duchesse, and Boulotte are marked by a cleverness and finish which many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles, she has all the traditions...
Blood, G. F. Elder...
JAMES WINTHROP HARRIS,SECRETARY of the University, performed his last official service on Commencement Day, went from Sanders Theatre severely ill, and early in the vacation closed an honored, faithful, and exemplary life. He belonged to a family intimately connected with the College, his father and elder brother - both eminent in their respective departments of learning - having borne office here. He was himself prepared for college, and retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without...
Near by were two gentlemen, whom I presently discovered to be the fathers of the two girls. The elder gentleman, father of the dark girl, was, I thought, a resident of Cambridge, whom the stout gentleman, father of the light girl, was visiting. They were intently watching, and talking about, their daughters, and did not notice me. What I heard so interested me that I have tried to report...
...their daughters, and the laughing girls took off their skates; and presently the party went out through the big doors which were being opened to let in the cold air. The stout man walked between the girls, making them both laugh, and laughing himself, a great, honest laugh; the elder man picked his way carefully along over the ice behind them...