Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which have proved so interesting. Miss Fletcher said: The common supposition that Indian music is of a primitive order is altogether wrong. It is so unlike anything else that comparison is impossible. If it were to be classed among the great musical schools it might well be said to belong to the natural school. Indians break into song almost involuntarily and it seems to be their only method of expressing their emotions. An interesting thing in this connection is the fact that very few Indian songs have words. They use merely a few syllables, showing that the tune...
...buildings. That is to say, the Corporation expresses itself as willing that students should form political clubs and as willing that they should take part in political meetings of the usual character if held elsewhere, but as unwilling that they should hold meetings of this character in halls which belong to the University. In other words, the Corporation wishes to make sure that the campaign element is eliminated from meetings held, as it were, under the auspices of the University...
...simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which I have quoted, exhibits; but Menander does not belong to a great poetical moment, he comes too late for it; it is the simple passages in poets like Pindar or Dante which are perfect, being masterpieces of poetical simplicity. One may say the same of the simple passages in Shakespeare; they are perfect; their simplicity being a poetical simplicity. They...
...connection with the numerous accessions to the University Library, made with every month, there is no corresponding increase of accommodations. The Library is now filled to its utmost capacity and, in fact, it has not room enough for all the books which properly belong within its walls. In order to make room for new books it has been found necessary to box up and remove about fifteen thousand of the oldest and least used books. It is supposed that this will give room for about a year's accession of new books and pamphlets...
...send a party to Gay's Head, Martha's Vineyard, during the April recess, to examine the formation of the cliffs on that headland. The clay and sand strata of this section abound in fossil bones of the order of Cetaceans, to which the whale and the walrus belong. There are also leaf-beds of a representative of the order to which the gigantic red-woods of California belong...