Word: waterloo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Following the dinner, Major Higginson introduced William S. Hall '69, the toast master of the evening, who told briefly of the days when Harvard crews raced on Lake Quinsigamond. As an old warrior once said, "The battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket ground at Eton." The place to prepare for the struggles of life is in the struggles at college. He finished by presenting President Lowell...
...Robert Dupouey will give the second of the four French readings from Victor Hugo, this evening at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11. Mr. Dupouey will read the following selections: Eile avait prisce pli, from "Les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "Les Contemplations;" extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "Les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "La Legende des Siecles;" la Vache, from "Les Voix Interieures." The reading will be open to the public...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Elle avait pris ce pli, from "les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "les Contemplations"; extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "la Legende des siecles;" la Vache, from "les Voix interieures." Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Elle avait pris ce pli, from les Contemplations; A Villequier, from les Contemplations; extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in les Miserables; extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in la Legende des siecles; la Vache, from les Voix interieures. Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...
...Mitchell, therefore, selects Becky Sharp as the central figure of his drama. From her life he picks out four strong "situations,"--the flight with Rawdon, the Waterloo ball, the midnight supper with Lord Steyne, and the last days at Pumpernickel,--and to the strongest of these, the third, he subordinates the rest, making each the subject...