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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...
...Scherzo from Midsummer-Night's Dream is bright and lively, and full of surprises. The violins have a very intricate series of passages which require the greatest unity of sound for good effect. The Notturno is, of course, a decided contrast to the Scherzo. It contains many quiet melodies, some of them very suggestive of church music. The movement ends with a sustained high note on the violins and a quiet accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra, the whole sound fading away till it is lost...
...Council of the University Athletic Club held a meeting last Monday afternoon, at 20 Nassau Street, New York, for the purpose of electing officers. President G. A. Adee, Yale, presided, and the roll taken showed that the meeting was practically a full attendance. The men elected to fill offices for the ensuing year are as follows: President, G. A. Adee Yale; Vice-President, R. C. Cornell Columbia; Treasurer, C. C. Cuyler, Princeton; Secretary, H. W. Banks, Jr., Williams...
...WARREN ARGUMENT.To understand the origin of railroad abuses, one must appreciate the full extent of competition. Investors cannot withdraw their money, they must make the road a success. Hence competition has become a life and death struggle, and the roads have resorted to underhand means. But the railroads themselves, for their own salvation, introduced a system of pooling which, by giving each road an assurance of just so much traffic, removed the necessity for reductions, and the evils consequent upon these reductions...
...Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write at all, or they wrote in a serious, controversial style, removed as far as possible from poetical sentiment. With their minds full of the important disputes going on around them, what wonder that they found no time for poetry...