Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the player in order to be enjoyed. Mr. Kneisel possesses both these requisites. His playing of the chromatic runs, double stops, and artificial harmonics was perfection itself. A member of his delicate and chromatic runs, however, were lost to the auditor, being drowned by the din of the orchestra. The soloist richly deserved the encore he received. Dvorak's Rhapsody No. 1 is rather trivial in character and partakes somewhat of the characteristics of wild Scotch music. Considered as a light piece of music, its bold conception is admirable. Its principal motives were admirably brought...
...matter, that the meeting must be held in the afternoon. This is, of course, a sore disappointment to the entire sophomore class and many of the upperclassmen, but doubtless it is better that in the future, freshman class meetings be held in comparative quiet, without that boisterous din with which '89 was initiated into the duties of college life...
...knife and tongue-ah! what a din...
...time the sports were called it was bright and clear, the only drawback being a strong wind up the home stretch and a slight heaviness of the track. The grand stand was crowded with the supporters of the teams from ten different colleges, and at times of excitement the din of the varied cheers was tremendous. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette, University of Michigan, Princeton, Leigh, Trinity and St. Johns, each sent at least one representative athlete, the Harvard delegation being the largest and numbering twenty-four. Mr. G. H. Badeau of the WIlliamsburg Athletic Club, acted...
...surroundings which suggest deep and quiet reflection,- these accretions of historic interest, these embodiments of tender sentiment. It is good for any student to feel that wise and true men have labored at his university before him,- that their quiet constructive work has been recognized,- that it outlasts the din and applause of stump speeches, and special pleadings of caucuses and conventions. That is the significance of those tablets inyounder chapel, of those tablets inyonder chapel, of those portraits in yonder library and faculty room, of those stained windows and marble monuments which are to be placed inyounder memorial building...