Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Capture of Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo by Lockwood, '90, and the "Darkey's Dream" by the Banjo Club. In regard to the Glee Club we quote a few words from a Cincinnati paper: "If music, heavenly maid, was not pleased with the appearance of these thirty dress-coated young Adonises, she can be in no wise the seraphic damsel we have been led to suppose...
...generally recognized species of mental experience, which stimulates presentiment, but which is not presentiment. Finally, I shall come to the apparently telepathic coincidences and shall endeavor to give an estimate of their value. Professor Royce then read several communications on the subject of hallucinations and remarkable dream impressions. He finished by reading some communications regarding cases of telepathy or thought-transferance...
...following course of musical and literary entertainment has been instituted at Amherst: December 5, reading of Midsummer Nights' Dream, by E. F. Thompson, accompanied by Listemann's Orchestra of Boston; January 18, Swedish Ladies' quartette, of Stockholm, and Edward T. Phelan, humorist; February 14, lecture by Mr. George Kennan; February 27, Bill Nye and John Whitcomb Riley; March 4, New York Philharmonic Club...
Despite a little unnatural wealth of incidents, Mr. Maynadier's story, entitle "The Reward of Virtue," is both interesting and in the main, natural. The discovery that he had been the victim of a dream is quite as unexpected to the reader as to Jack Hunter himself; and this very circumstance adds not a little to the effectiveness of the story. Were any comparison to be drawn between the stories in the present number of the Advocate it would seem to be but just to pronounce that of Mr. Mayandier the best...
...good and the style is clear and well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists of two college "poems" and a hunting song...