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...movements from a serenade for strings; St. Saens, Introduction and Rondo Capriccizo for violin; Gounod, Aria; Masenet, Aria; Beethoven, Allegretto and Allegro from seventh symphony. The soloists were Mme. Fursch-Madi and Mr. Adamowski. Although Mme. Fursch-Madi's voice shows some signs of wear in portions of its compass, she proved herself as true an artist as ever. "Ah Perfido" was given with great dramatic power, but on the whole, she made a better effect with the Gounod aria, which was not so severe in its demands on her voice. Mr. Adamanowski gave the musicianly performance which...
...obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling them to find the direction of their own homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used...
...word "News" is not as many imagine, derived from the word "new," but from the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass. It was a common practice in former years (between 1595 and 1730) to put over the periodical publications of the day, the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass thus...
...enough in its scope to excite an interest in its work and lead the students to give greater attention to oratorical study. A society which is carried on in such a manner that, while it may be in full activity, it fails to gather interested outsiders about it cannot compass the work prepared and ready for it. I would recommend greater publicity in the recitals of the club and a closer attention to a course of reading which would be of greater interest to the college at large. While I wish the society every success and extend it my cordial...
...college furrow with a brain so beneficently trained and strengthened that it will unable him to grasp and claim for his own any subject to which he may turn his attention. Again, on the other hand, we observe exactly the opposite course pursued. We see a student endeavoring to compass within the time allotted to twelve electives a study of twenty. Despairing of the training afforded by the learning of the ancients and the science of the mathematics he elects a course varying between Spanish I. and Philosophy VIII. We can readily see in each case the cause...