Word: descent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected...
...strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner...
...name scherzo, is omitted from the third movement, which is essentially tragic in character and thus sustains a proper relation to the other movements. In the Eroica the scherzo certainly affords needed relaxation, after the gloom of the funeral march, yet one would wish that the descent were not quite so rapid, and surely the title of scherzo is decidedly out of place in such a connection. The last movement sustains the heroic character, though in a somewhat lighter strain, and forms a fitting conclusion...
...before public opinion, and the demand of common sense. What if President Bartlett had to change his creed, making it read-"We believe in the government by the students, subject to the advice and approval of the faculty?" It is needless to say that it would be an awful descent. But, then, some mountains will be steep; and men who are foolish enough to climb them, must come down sooner or later. The descent may be even rapid and ungraceful, but still it is often politic...
...very difficult one to ascend, so difficult that it is impossible to carry a camera along, so that no views of the ascent itself could be given. Views, however, illustrating the various difficulties in the ascent of a snow-covered mountain were given. Mr. Huntington's ascent and descent was made very quickly, so quickly that, when he returned, the people at the hotel from which he started would not believe he had made the ascent. The names of his companions and his own name, however, were left at the summit, so that the ascent would be proved...