Word: depths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stranss polka "For Love of Her" arranged for the Banjo club. The selection was played with great spirit and precision. The soloist of the evening was Mr. L. A. Corne who played a selection from Rode's Seventh Concert for the violin. Mr. Corne played with considerable feeling and depth but evidently lacked in technical skill. The second part opened with a Volkmann Suite for String Orchestra and was followed by the celebrated Louis XIII gavotte. Three glees "Kate Kearney," "Drink to me only with Thine Eyes," and "Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen," were extremely creditable pieces...
...track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that there is little grade...
...understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling...
...Herrick contributes a translation from the French of M. Guy de Manpassant. He well portrays the depth of meaning in the few chosen pages of the author...
...height of the water in the tank has been lowered, so that now it is only eighteen inches deep. The men find that this depth is much more natural...