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...able article has lately been published in the Advocate, discussing the music for the Greek play, composed by Professor Paine. As the criticism there made was directed chiefly to the methods employed and to the orchestration, it may not be superfluous to add a few remarks for the assistance of those who are endeavoring to form their judgment of the merits of the different choruses...
Mention was made in the last Crimson of the Adagio movement in the second chorus. It is only necessary to add that the episode, ??? (p. 39 of pianoforte score), is, in our opinion, somewhat marred by the introduction of an extra measure. We should have preferred a strict adherence to periodic form. This is, however, a very slight matter, and the chorus undoubtedly ranks with the fifth and sixth, perhaps we should say with the third and sixth...
COMMONPLACES must be uttered, and well-worn subjects discussed. The fact that a subject is well-worn shows that it is interesting. So we hope that with this little explanation we may be permitted to add our mite to the generous contribution of praise and congratulation which the Greek department, and more especially Professors Goodwin and White, are receiving. That they deserve it all, no one doubts, and least of all do the students of the University. The play was to be by the students. It remained to be seen whether it would be for the students...
...line of Shakspere study. It is very well to praise the slashing criticism which is so popular and so unsound; to magnify the merits of a certain Boston University critic, whose ignorance is only equalled by his audacity; to depreciate men who, like Dr. Furness, can really add something of value to Shaksperian literature; but we believe that those admirers and those critics will, in the end, be bitterly disappointed. Careful scholarship has been ridiculed as pedantry before this, but it has at last invariably won just recognition. We are sorry that the Advocate has been so grossly misinformed...
...pleasantry in regard to the sparring at our last winter meetings. If the Gazette desires to allow people to air their ill-breeding through its columns, we have no possible objection; but we beg leave to suggest that an occasional regard for truth in the articles it publishes might add some weight to the communications themselves as well as elevate the usual standard of the Gazette's news...