Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the half year previous, and this custom, of course, swells the number of editors to a considerable degree. In reality, our editorial board has consisted of nine literary editors who have done the entire work of writing the paper, while for the News there are ten men who perform the same work, according to their list...
...dwelt on the severity of the tests to which men professedly devoted to total abstinence are sometimes put. Theses trials must be looked for by those who depart from the ordinary tenets of the age. As Emerson expressed it, "There has never yet been found an easy way to perform heroic conduct." The lecturer recommended Summer's advice to Stanton, "stick...
Both the Hasty Pudding Club and the University Boat Club are to be congratulated. The pudding men, because they have had such a handsome tribute to their acting abilities that a third performance is demanded and to be given, and the crew men, because a third performance in Union Hall and the large audience which it will surely draw, will add another considerable sum of money to their treasury. The large number of applicants who failed to get tickets to the first two entertainment's will now find a chance to get what they desired. They and all the college...
...trees are selected with great care that the chances of dying may be small, and when they are planted are named or friend. The idea of such a general tree planting is peculiar, but it is done to impress the young that they have a duty to perform in beautifying their surroundings in life and to give them a taste for the delights of nature...
...rule at Cornell, all students found deficient in physical development are excused from drill, and compelled to perform a regular course of gymnasium work...