Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Miss White sang as a second number an Aria from Graun's "Der Tod Jesu." Her rendering was always intelligent and sympathetic The Aria has little of the fire work element about it and therefore to sing it well is to put one's soul into it, not so much being required, perhaps, in the way of mere execution. Throughout, the enunciation was remarkably clear and this is one of the best features of the soloist's work...
Hutchins Hapgood writes a short plea for the preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which...
...unfortunate that there should be cause each year for reference to a dishonest element in college, however small that element may be. We dislike to take up again the same old complaints and harp in the same old lines. But year after year the great privileges which we enjoy at the library have been abused and reserved books have been deliberately and wantonly stolen. We understand that already reserved books have been stolen this year and from editions which are few and valuable. We enjoy a decided privilege in this system of reserved books which enables us to read...
...passage is an apparent paradox. Yet on further consideration the difficulty disappears. By means of light, objects about us form images on the retinas of our eyes and we see these images, not the objects themselves. All things are taken by themselves invisible. Seeing, then, has in it an element of faith...
...feel that the disgraceful uproar that occurred in the yard last night cannot be too strongly condemned. We understand that a large element and the best element of Ninety-five was opposed to the rush and took no part in it. To them we feel confident that we may express the approbation and the thanks of the university, though we regret that their good influence was not sufficient to avert the scene of last night. The individual members of the class who took part in the rush can feel that they have acted in a childish, ungentlemanly part, which...