Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierian Sodality, also, we understand, invites all students who play any orchestral instrument to offer themselves for trial as candidates for membership next Friday and Monday. The same arguments that would urge men to try for the Glee Club apply also in the case of the Pierian. To all students who are musically inclined both these societies offer unsurpassable advantages for profit and pleasure combined. Freshmen, we must repeat, should not be backward about presenting themselves in these trials. There is no member of '86, we feel sure, who, if fairly competent, would not profit by membership. Certainly the trial...
...editors of the first Harvard Register (1827) said in their introduction: "Many of us frequently lay aside the speculations of Plato, the oratory of Demosthenes, the poetic splendors of Homer, and the triangles of Legendre, to assume the looks, the tones, the authority, and that still more efficient instrument, the ferule, of country schoolmasters. By this means we season our visions, theories and demonstrations with something of practical, political and statistical wisdom...
Prof. Waldo of Yale is having a valuable heliometer constructed in Europe by Repsold of Hamburg. It will arrive here probably in March, and will probably be the only instrument of the kind in America...
...source of regret that better opportunities for the study of instrumental music are not offered by the university. Many men do not appreciate the value of musical accomplishments until they have spent some time at college, and when they have come to recognize the undoubted advantages and pleasures accruing therefrom, they are only too desirous of devoting some time to acquiring at least a little skill in playing some instrument. There are many reasons, and obvious ones, too, that prevent a man from carrying out his wishes in this matter; but the most potent one is that very often...
...great forest into the wide world that he had never seen. He was wholly absorbed in the contemplation of many marvels, so that he did not see another genie approach and stand beside him, till the genie rang a little silver bell, enclosed in a wonderful pistol-shaped instrument of silver. "???" said the genie. "A ???." Henry did not know what to do, and therefore he drew the magic paper from his pocket; whereupon the genie cried out in a voice of thunder, "???" and vanished in smoke; and Henry felt himself suddenly snatched up and whirled through...