Word: scene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- After seeing a great game like Saturdays-wild enthusiasm, frantic cheering, the great rush at the end, and all the other stirring incidents of the scene-it is most dampening to read the meagre and cold-blooded accounts of it in all the papers. I notice that the CRIMSON even reduces the first individual feat in the game, Boyden's run, to this: "Harvard's down; ball passed back to Boyden," etc. Won't you correct this and put in print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field...
...spite of the disgraceful affair of last spring, that inevitably detracted somewhat from the society's good name, the Union promises to start out this year with new life and it is safe to predict that the scene of last year will not be repeated. The great good to be obtained from speaking at the debates cannot be over estimated. No man need hesitate from modesty of his own ability; everybody may feel certain of a cordial reception, and the faults of inexperienced speakers are gladly overlooked...
...comes from the Price-Greenleaf bequest, and forms the most remarkable benefaction of the kind ever created. When it becomes known that the college has funds to this amount to distribute, there will undoubtedly be a sudden increase in the number of poor students desirous of making Harvard the scene of their labors. As previously stated, the aggregate income of the various college professorship funds is about $80,000. Counting the income from all the scholarships, the loan funds and the beneficiary funds, the college as trustee is able to give to poor students over $300,000 a year. From...
Yale has not yet made her appearance, but is expected by Tuesday or Wednesday. When she arrives there will be eight crews rowing on the river every day and the Thames will be the scene of considerable excitement...
...part of the book is written in a narrative form, also, that there is only now and then occasion for anything more than the plain, straightforward, vigorous style than counts for so much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is occasion for a dramatic scene, it is always drawn with power and truth and (notwithstanding the appearance sometimes of gracefulness sacrificed for strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting...