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Lecture. Finer Anatomy of the Nervous System: the Spinal Chord. Dr. G. H. Parker. Zoological Lecture-room, top floor, University Museum...
...Spinal Chord...
...noon hour a simple, quiet service was held in Appleton Chapel over the remains of Miss Katherine Ward Lane, daughter of Professor G. M. Lane. The service was conducted by Bishop Lawrence. In accordance with a wish of Miss Lane, expressed some time ago, Sullivan's "Lost Chord" was sung. The choir sang two appropriate hymns, and Bishop Lawrence read suitable passages from the Bible...
...chieftain yielded to femine entreaties, refused to assault the place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great skill to the touching close - three staccato notes in the strings only, as soft as possible, "preceeded by fragments of the original themes, coming like inevitable death on the broken purposes of the hero." The overture was finely played though perhaps...
Besides this centralization of harmony upon the tonic note, the grasp of compositions as chord sequences which is characteristic of modern music-listening has led to a demand for relationship by common notes between successive chords and to a greatly extended use of the resolution of discord. These changes are evidence of a capacity for growth in the art to which it seems impossible to set limits...