Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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To the experienced eye, some changes in the details of the stroke will be noticeable. The light dip which allowed a hard catch on the beginning will give way to a full dip which requires a constant pressure throughout the stroke. Particular care will be taken to obtain a hard...
Prof. Paine's lecture last night was devoted to following the development of instrumental music down to the time of Bach. Instrumental music naturally came after vocal music, men being endowed by nature with voices, and instruments being a matter of ingenuity and invention. It developed slowly, the church being...
Sig. Campanari, the well known violinist of Boston, performed finely several pieces of violin music by early masters, coming down as late as Paganini, among which were selections from Corelli, the celebrated "Dent's Tull" by Fortune, and a Burcarolle by Paganini. The next lecture will be on April 16...
The substitutes are Huddleston, 184 lbs., and Rogers, 177 lbs. The most noticeable fault of the crew is a tendency to rush down and hurry the stroke. Yesterday they rowed thirty-eight strokes a minute in a heavy barge. No. 1 jams his hands down on the shoot, No. 2...
We published, some time ago, a complaint concerning English VII. The complaint was directed at the method at present pursued in the teaching of the course. Any literary course which is intended to cover so long a period as either English VII or VIII, cannot be safely conducted in the...