Word: topics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome...
...left unnoticed. The second part of Mr. Jefferson's autobiography contains chiefly an account of his experience starring in the south in connection with Burton, Burke, Owen, Wallack and other actors of the forties. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay is drawing to a close, the topic for this number being the fall of Richmond. The serials, "Friend Olivia" by Amelia E. Barr, and "The Merry Chanters" by Frank R. Stockton are continued. The other articles are "The New Croton Aqueduct" by Charles Barnard, "Captain Joe" by F. H. Smith, "The Nature and Method of Revelation...
DEAR SIRS.- Just at this time the one absorbing topic that interests our university is foot ball. The game of last Saturday is talked over and the prospects of success on Thanksgiving day. If the arrangements in the future for the handling of the crowds and preservation of good order, at the big championship games, will only equal those at Springfield, the pleasure of attending the games will be much increased...
...college conference meeting to be held this evening in Sever promises to be one of marked interest both in the topic for consideration and in the speaker who will open the discussion. Mr. Richard H. Dana, of New York, is to address the students on the subject of Reforms in Political Methods, and how to bring them about. The subject will of course be approached from a non-partisan point of view, and Mr. Dana's great familiarity with political affairs cannot fail to make the meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake...
...remembered that the Union is distinctly a student organization, managed by and for the undergraduates, and hence that it needs the support of the college at large. This, too, it deserves. It has been and is its purpose to present for discussion at each meeting, some one timely topic, either of public or of local student interest. The discussion upon the chosen subject is carried on in perfect parliamentary manner by leading disputants and after ward thrown open to the house for discussion. In this way the greatest freedom is obtained together with the best results. But these cannot...