Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...numbers by the orchestra were the Symphonic Poem "Le Rouet D'Omphale," Saint-Saens and Schumann's 4th Symphony in D minor. The first of these represents very graphically the action of a spinning wheel, commencing with the slow whirr and gradually accelerated motion and then ending with a faint high note. The Symphony, written about fifty years ago, is a passionate work, full of poetry and nature. Mr. Nikisch's conception of this and all the rest of the numbers was masterly and the whole concert well served to carry the series off to the past, gone in fact...
...this same reasoning it might be argued that as there is a very faint interest in sparring and wrestling at college, this interest should be aroused by exhibitions of sparring and wrestling by outside champions. Theoretically this ought to be so. An ideal exhibition of sparring - sparring, not for blood, but for points - where quickness and skill should be the qualities to be exercised and to determine the winner, such an exhibition of sparring would doubtless do much to arouse an interest in the sport here at Harvard. But, unfortunately, such an exhibition of ideal sparring is hard to find...
...composed or arranged by Harvard undergraduates; the words or music, or both, of nearly twenty of them originated among the students here in Cambridge. Among those which have never been published in any college collection may be mentioned: "Wake Not, but hear Me, Love," by L. S. Thompson '92; "Faint Heart Ne'er won Fair Lady," by R. T. Whitehouse '91; "The Hoodoo," by L. S. Thompson '92 and L. F. Berry '92, arranged as sung by the latter last fall; "The Moonlighter," by E. H. Abbott '93; "Mrs. Craigin's Daughter," "The Party at Odd Fellows Hall," and "Wine...
...Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady, R. T. Whitehouse '91. Solo by Mr. Whitehouse...
...Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady, R. T. Whitehouse...