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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...training, and as long as the barges can be used by all members; but when the crews commence going out in the afternoon, then the number of boats is too small. Unless one happens to have rowed before, and has some skill in handling the oar, - unless one, in fact, is on either of the crews, - it is nearly impossible to get any boat whatsoever in the afternoon. The barges are required for the crews, and only the double and single sculls are left for the use of the thirty or forty other men in each club...
...fact, no one who is interested in the subject can attend the course without being able to form intelligent opinion upon the subject, and to gain some standard, beside that of a mere uncultivated fancy, by which to judge of the merit of engravings; and the audience, although not as large as might be expected from the value of the course, yet is all that could be wished in the evident interest and attention which it manifests...
...fact that an entertainment can be given with pecuniary success without a public sale of tickets was clearly proved at the annual Spring Concert given by the Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club in Lyceum Hall on last Monday evening; for the audience was as large as ever, and far more demonstrative. It is possible that the applause was so frequent because there were more personal friends of the performers present than usual, but I am inclined to think that the excellence of the performances themselves was enough to produce this result. The general opinion is that this...
...grand effect. Considering the difficulties which lie in the middle of this piece, consisting of accidentals, naturals, and other terrors, the Club deserve great credit for their fine rendering. A charming old English ballad received an intelligent interpretation. "The Violet" of Mozart was well rendered as an encore. The fact is, encores seemed to be the order of the evening, though it is hard to see how there could be much enthusiasm in so poorly ventilated a hall...
That the audience was not a large one is probably due to the fact that there were two other performances of superior attractions taking place in the city on the same evening. However, what the audience lacked in numbers it more than made up in appreciation...