Word: boldly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editors of the four college papers. Mr. Cobb, president of the CRIMSON presided and opened the meeting by stating the reasons for the dinner, and asked the opinion of the men present, as to the advisability of the holding the dinner By a unaimous vote it was decided to bold the dinner, and the business of elections was then taken up. A committee, consisting of the presidents of the four college papers, Messrs. Wardner, Dennison, Dodge and Cobb, was elected to take charge of the details, and it was voted to leave the time and place of the dinner...
...restful snooze had rendered Jimmy bold...
...been pre-eminently a characteristic of the present administration at Harvard. This was well pointed out by President Angell of Michigan in his after-dinner speech at the Harvard celebration last November. He alluded to the debt that all American colleges owe to the old university for the bold spirit of experiment that has led to the recognition of the difference in value between the traditional, customary, and conventional methods, inherited from previous generations, and the new, fresh, original methods, that contribute their share to the advance of the age. Any thing, he said, rather than stagnation in educational matters...
...were lost to the auditor, being drowned by the din of the orchestra. The soloist richly deserved the encore he received. Dvorak's Rhapsody No. 1 is rather trivial in character and partakes somewhat of the characteristics of wild Scotch music. Considered as a light piece of music, its bold conception is admirable. Its principal motives were admirably brought out by the orchestra. The last number on the programme was Haydn's Oxford Symphony which was exceedingly delicately and conscientiously rendered. The beautiful quality of the strings was especially noticeable in the first Adagio movement and was not lacking...
There are many others of equal value and interest, some singularly bold compared with the handwriting of to-day, some singularly cramped and irregular. Perhaps the most interesting of all is that of Wm. Gallison. It is evidently the close of a letter sent home from school, and beside the signature is a drawing, here copied, evidently representing a student of the period. The letter is dated...