Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Suite, reminds one repeatedly of Grieg's "Peer Gyut" Suite. There is the same strangeness and weirdness about the various movements, so characteristic of this latter work. The first movement is entitled "In a Haunted Forest." It represents the sounds of a forest on a windy night, the effect of the moaning and shrieking wind being brought out very distinctly by a rapid crescendo by the violins from lower to higher tones. The movement suggests the approach, the actual presence and the departure of a tremendous gale. Then follows a short movement, full of the finest harmonies, entitled "Summer Idyl...
...last movement and one for clarionet near the beginning. The orchestra did not seem in their best form in this last number; several careless mistakes marred the rendering of the programme from a critical standpoint, but these came in minor details so that they did not have a material effect...
...questions of the Senior Statistician of Yale have been distributed and contain several new features. Among these are inquires concerning the physical effect of the four years, the effect of study on the eyesight, and also whether the climate has proved detrimental to health. The men are also asked to describe the injuries, if any, which have been received from athletics...
...forth briefly his reasons for choosing prose. The impossibility of adopting the "terza rima" which Dante used because of the paucity of rhyme words in English as compared with Italian throws out all chances of producing an English version of the Divine Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear and simple verse of Dante allows, gives...
...meeting was called to order by Mr. G. P. Costigan Jr., the temporary president who stated that the object of the meeting was to effect the permanent organization of the club. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, Mr. Watriss, as chairman of the committee, read a constitution, which, after being discussed in detail and amended in some slight particulars, was finally accepted...