Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conte Feerique" of Rimsky-Korsakoff is lovely--but in the same way that all of this Russian's work is lovely. There are frequent reminiscences of "Scheherazade", and there seemed to be throughout strangely familiar harmonic, melodic, and even instrumental sequences, as in the throwing of a figure from trombone to trumpet, thence to piccolo, followed by a string development...
...Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent in his work. Mr. Monteux, however, is extremely successful with such "program music...
...beyond the first chapter, and so, presumably, did not read further. Subsequent readers often waste much time in trying to decipher the pencilled comments. Even if all the witticisms were of the order of those mentioned above, there might be some excuse; but the average comment, and the most frequent one, is "to Hell with Yale". The sentiment is undoubtedly patriotic and shows that all this talk about "Harvard indifference" is greatly exaggerated. But it might be suggested that the college patriots of the marginal note express their overflow of feeling in some more effective...
...This 'concours' system has the advantage that it provides a highly trained student body and limits the number of students so that new buildings and equipment do not have to be provided at frequent intervals. Many people, however, feel that the concours plan makes the passing of examinations the students' primary work. The applicants who fail to pass the examinations may try again, sometimes for four or five years successively until they reach a certain age limit; they may then seek admission in schools of lesser prestige...
...drawing entitled "Little Willie's Idea of African Golf" is also inspired. But the other drawings do not stray far from the conventional. Indeed, the art department appears to be the weakest part of the Lampoon. The magazine seems written with more freshness than is the case in those frequent, bare years when it lives but does not flourish; many of those who write for it have more than usual talent. The importance of the Lampoon in life at Harvard, quite apart from its tradition, cannot be valued too highly. Few of us would want all Harvard undergraduates to appear...