Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overture to "Der Freischuetz," though not a new one to Cambridge people, was never heard to better advantage here. The horn passages in the first parts are deserving of special comment and praise. The purity of these tones and delicacy of their execution was truly admirable. Owing to some misunderstanding about the piano the Unfinished Symphony was given before the Bruch selection. The audience showed a lively appreciation of Schubert's masterpiece and without doubt it was the favorite of the programme. Gericke brought out the melodic beauties of the work with true artistic feeling. The soloist of the evening...
...recent restrictive resolutions of the overseers have called forth such comment in the newspapers of the day, and particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...
...Williams Weekly says that the grade of scholarship has fallen so low in the sophomore class as to provoke from the faculty "comment and an investigation, which revealed a state of affairs that might well discourage any body of professors...
...interesting one. In the editorial column are discussed the value and scope of the work done by the various technical societies, the CRIMSON'S petition for electric lights for the library, and a quotation from Mr. Joseph Lee's letter to the Boston Herald, which has aroused so much comment recently. The last editorial is a little unfair in its anxiety to be candid. It says, speaking of the social standing of real students: "Little distinction is made between a man who studies hard and at the same time develops other sides of his life, and the man who does...