Word: marvellously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yards hurdle race-F. Marvel, Worcester academy; time 20 seconds. W. Hoag, Roxbury Latin, second...
Running broad jump-C. Brewer, Hopkinson's, distance 18 feet, 7 inches; F. Marvel, Worcester, second...
...value to him as a dramatist. Through all his great tragedies he is constantly viewing things with a painter's eye, which gives to them a greater unity and a higher artistic merit. All of the dramas of Euripides, with one exception, were composed after the completion of that marvel of architecture, the Parthenon; and the sight of this structure must have been a constant inspiration to one who had once been a painter, and could therefore fully appreciate the beauties of such a building, since painting and architecture are kindred arts...
...poets, chosen by vote of the undergraduates themselves, in turn commemorated the glories of Harvard, criticized its system, and exhorted to emulation of its past. The most perfect decorum prevailed; in fact any one who had witnessed the pandemonium of the Oxford Encaenia could not fail to marvel that these things could be. The Harvard undergraduates no doubt felt the responsibility of the occasion. They were taking their part in a great celebration, and were doing their duty to themselves and their Alma Mater. Nothing could exceed the order with which they entered the theatre in a long procession...
...England. She is perhaps the first learned Brahmin who has ever crossed the ocean. She is a descendant of the ancient Brahmin family, Sandilya. Her correct pronunciation of the Sanscrit, and the astonishing ease, with which she composes and recites Sanscrit verses in the most difficult metre, is a marvel...