Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This or a similar programme, covering not longer than two days, would give the members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make...
...country. Its music shows that remarkable fertility of Auber's melodic invention and his genius in chorus writing is at all times prominently exhibited in its numbers. The story is full of interest with ample contrast in its scenes and incidents, and the humerous features afford opportunities which greatly heighten its enjoyment. The cast will be as follows...
...team goes through a season's work depends very much on the interest manifested by the University at large on the occasion of such public contests as those of today. If men will turn out in good numbers to support their respective classes, their very presence will tend to heighten interest in track athletics and indirectly give encouragement to the University track team...
...dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never...
...Symphony Concert last night, had attached to it a sentiment which served to heighten in no small degree, the pleasure which its own beauty would have given. Mr. Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness...