Word: solemnizes
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...were played by young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played by a graduate of Girton College, who gave a charmingly earnest and dignified impersonation of the solemn-eyed goddess. On the whole, the play was performed in a very satisfactory manner, and the students are to be congratulated on presenting a work of the highest interest and impressiveness...
...young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem to have been well studied out beforehand. The thing that most detracted from the effectiveness of the play was, not so much...
...disclosed one of the ways in which student money is wasted under the guise of providing for the crew. It was announced some months ago that the nine were to change their uniform during the coming spring, crimson and black striped blazers and caps being substituted for the solemn gray ones of yore. The nine were about to order these, when in step the crew men and say that the striped blazers are their particular property, and request that the nine shall not wear them...
...case of love, there can be no doubt; for he, the typical yodeler pursues the object of his passion, the very elusive and unattainable yodel, at all hours of the day and night. He kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely...
...reading room of the library was photographed yesterday morning, with all the mournful and solemn-faced students in it grinding away...