Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...devoted to Harvard will thank the Young Men's Christian Association for sending out such, a great number of copies of "Harvard's Better Self" which, it will be remembered, appeared in the New England Magazine for December 1890. The imputations that Harvard is a place where the higher thoughts of life are disregarded which the University has been forced to bear up, against owing to the misstatements of newspaper reporters and other jealous persons, is shown to be false by this excellent article. We hope that the article may be read by as many people as possible and that...
...first lecture we defined a note as a single sound having distinct pitch. It has long been known that in some notes such as those of the voice and stringed instruments, what we call the pitch of the note is accompanied by a number of higher and fainter pitches. These are called overtones. The researches of Helmboltz have proved that this is not the exceptional but the common case and that comparatively few instruments (the tuning fork being one) give notes in which the pitch we principally notice is the only one apparent to closer scrutiny. According to his theory...
GERMAN.- Tutoring in German A, B, C, 1a and 1b. Also, if desired, in the higher German courses...
...shall call a Note, without distinct pitch a Noise. The physical cause of a note is a regularly periodic air vibration, irregular vibration causing noise. To this difference in their origin is to be referred the aesthetic superiority of notes to noises. The pitch of a note is higher as the vibration causing it is faster. The lowest pitch is produced by about 16 vibrations per second, the highest by about 40,000. In the next lecture we shall study the forms in which pitch presents itself to the ear in the notes of the voice and instruments...
GERMAN.- Tutoring in German A, B, C and 9. Also, if desired, in the higher German courses. Call after 7.30 p. m., or address...