Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great extent offset by the remarkable ability of Howe, Robbins and Kilpatrick of Yale. Nevertheless, with Captain Rand and Gardner at their best and with a year's improvement in Long. Sweetser and Chadwick of the 1911 team the University may at least hope to break even with Yale in these two events and win several points in the intercollegiates...
...Miller's "The Aged Poet's Soliloquy" a bard of seventy-five long years grieves that men shall never know the richer veins of gold that lay below the inmost marvel of his poet's heart. Mr. Dickerman in "Romance" is not quite so worldworn as the others, but even for him "The Rose Perhaps grows sweeter in these garden walks, Because of roses that bloomed long...
...Subjective interpretations of musical masterpieces are fraught with danger, as the same music may mean one thing to one hearer and something else to another. But Mr. Van Dyke has shown discretion in selecting for his possibly too rhapsodic treatment a work of Beethoven which is intensely subjective and even, as far as absolute music can be, definitely autobiographic. It is well known that the Fifth Symphony was composed at a time when Beethoven was most unhappy because of the breaking off of his engagement to a beautiful young girl, and was consequently pouring out his grief and his despair...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 12, 1908.--The main feature of the practice of the crews today was the race of a mile between the University and Freshman eights this afternoon over the last mile of the course. The two crews started even, and the University crew led by about three lengths of open water at the finish. Both boats went at a fairly high stroke all the way, the University eight raising it to 38 to the minute on the last few hundred yards. The University crew took the lead at the start and gradually increased...
...divided into two classes: first, those who are restless until they have referred every experience, and every bit of knowledge, to certain first principles; and, next, those who take life more classically, not because they lack first principles, but because they are more interested in the sweep and variety, even in the exceptions and caprice, than in the rigid formulation of life. Mr. Berenson belongs to the former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge...