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...endure, and let them to members at a price which would cover the cost of the book at the end of the estimated time, and also pay something to the society. This is a plan which has successfully been adopted in several young ladies' boarding schools that I have heard of; and I think it only needs a fair trial to prove it a success here...
...Princeton nine, says the N. Y. Tribune, has openly declared that under such restrictions as those recently proposed in the N. Y. conference he will not attempt the management of the team, and other old players have avowed their intention of giving up the sport. One of them was heard to say that if the champion Yale was excluded, the contests would be reduced to walk over, and all interest and enthusiasm would be at an end. This is the general verdict at Princeton...
...whole was well played. Something appeared to be the trouble diring the first movement which was dreadfully ragged, each man playing independently, so that it was hard to catch the conductor's interpretation. The remaining three numbers were, however, as well played as we have ever heard the orchestra play Beethoven, except that in the third movement the sudden change to the "tempo primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably...
Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell, who lectured with such success before the Harvard Historical Society some two years ago is to deliver a course of lectures before the Students' Lecture Association at Ann Arbor. These lectures should be heard at Harvard...
...there are no new songs written as taking in their melodies as the old ones? Or rather why is it that such songs are not brought into popular favor? The same old songs with but few additions are sung year after year, and although now and then complaints are heard, nothing of importance has yet been done. Our own glee club started a laudable practice in its last concert in particular by rendering several new songs, and it is right here that we find the root of the whole question. It certainly must be through the medium of the glee...