Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Clubs and the President and Vice-President of the Pierian Sodality met, last evening to discuss the plans for the annual spring concert. It is decided to hold the concert on May 18 in Sanders Theatre. Tickets will be put on sale about two weeks before the concert; the exact dates for the sales have not yet been decided upon...
...literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results of a thorough study of the classics. He had an exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from...
Besides the above games there will also be two games with Exeter, the exact dates for which have not yet been settled...
...matter of music for the play has offered the greatest difficulties thus far. The trouble has been to hit upon music of a form which will be appropriate and sufficiently exact for the play and which yet will not be ludicrous. After much discussion and many experiments, Professor F. D. Allen has made a scheme which is thought to be near enough to the ancient music and yet will not be too strange to our ears. For the Greek play a full chorus and unaccompanied dialogues answer well enough, but this is not true of the Latin play which...
...after the experience they had just undergone and only recently has the plan matured. It is, in a way, a stupendous undertaking. The average person can little realize the difficulties which are ever presenting themselves. The point which has constantly to be kept in mind is to give as exact a reproduction of the play as possible, at the same time to make it accord with the culture of to-day. In the music, particularly, it is very hard to reconcile the many difficulties. A strict following of the old forms would hardly pass with a modern audience; it would...