Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mlle. Helene Hastreiter rendered the Aria from Orpheus in a dramatic but rather harsh style. Her voice is very rich and melodious in the lower register, but inchmed to be throaty in high sustained passages. She sings utterly without sentiment...
...fall games of the Athletic Association on the 22nd were satisfactory in every sense of the word, although the high wind prevented the breaking of any records. The best time in the 100 yards dash was made by Sherrill, in 10 2-5 sec. The half-mile handicap was one of the most interesting events of the day, and resulted in a walk-over for your college, the first four men being from Harvard. F. R. Dana won in two minutes and one second. The mile run was another feature of the games and was won by Harvard...
...Yale Literary Magazine made its first appearance this year in its October number, and is remarkable for the high standard and general excellence of its pieces. Perhaps the most praiseworthy are "Count Tolstoi and My Confession," and a beautifully expressed poem, of much greater length than the average literary poem. As a whole, the pieces show more thought than usual and predict a bright year in our literary life...
...that this year's scratch races are finished, it is high time that the boat club should distribute cups to the members of the winning '90 crew in last year's races...
...talent that finds expression in well-turned lines and fairly well chosen words. There is, however, too much of the artificial sentimental in it to permit us to call it a very promising effort. There is not much to be said for "Anna Polanova" a story placed in the high life of St. Petersburg. There are enough larynxruffling gutterals in the name of the various "vitches" and "ovnas" to make a careless reader believe that it is a powerful Russian story, but a closer perusal will show that things are not always what they seem. It takes more than...