Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lightning flashed upon the gloom...
...vainly hurled against the unpitying gloom...
When the Pierian began, every shadow of gloom had vanished. Their playing was a very pleasant surprise. The two pieces most worthy of mention were the overture to "Belisario" and Haydn's Third Symphony. The "Belisario" was given with a smoothness and a repose that many a more pretentious orchestra would do well to emulate; qualities certainly not to be expected of amateurs. In the Haydn Symphony both the vigor of the attack and the delicacy of the shading were particularly noticeable. The different parts were surprisingly clear; there was no scrabbling, and the rhythmical contrast was well brought...
They deepen into gloom within...
...Bohemians, but they are mild compared to him who sits sub iisdem trabibus and even super eadem trabe -I shall elect Latin -with me in U. 13. University! cheerful as the Catacombs! I always enter it with much the same feeling that I would a great mausoleum. The gloom which comes over me deepens as I take my seat, for I know that my dexter companion will give me no repose. My Plutonic melancholy, the heated room, the dull Livy, -all are conducive to slumber; the very instructor seems admirably chosen to that end: but my naps are broken...