Word: explained
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...characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others. He has shown...
...high overtones are present. They are absent in flute notes, those of the piano and sweet voices; their presence gives their sharp quality to string and reed instruments and their crashing timbre to instruments of brass. The next lecture will suggest that some supplementary considerations are needed fully to explain the aesthetic differences in notes...
Schopenhauer marks the transition to the modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature...
...Monday lecture of Political Economy 1 will be held in Lower Massachusetts. All the members of the course will meet at nine o'clock. Professor MacVane will explain his view of the Wages Fund Theory...
...photographs) of every member of the graduating class, cuts of the 'varsity athletic teams, of the Glee club and Pierian Sodality, of the new buildings, of deceased instructors, of the '90 Phi Beta Kappa, of the '90 Class Day officers, etc. Sufficient printed matter will accompany the cuts to explain them. The book will be made as complete and comprehensive as possible. Every Harvard undergraduate will appreciate the opportunity thus to be afforded, of obtaining at small expense what would in another form, cost him nearly or quite, a hundred dollars, and what he will value through life...