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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...actors are really singers, and some of the principal ones have a compass of not exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers...
Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...
...writer is one who has been watching with pleasure the increasing interest in lacrosse and the gradual formation of a team to represent the University. He feels, however, that many more men should come out to learn the game, which is certainly one of the most interesting and beneficial of the manly sports...
...Ivan Tonjoroff contributes the explanation of "Why I Left the Army." In spite of paragraphs one sentence in length and sentences equally abbreviated we learn the reason without much excitement. The tale has a certain atmosphere of familiarity about it which makes the reader feel that he has been there before...
...question naturally arises, how can these burdens be borne? We must first learn that the burdens are going to remain. The more one shirks, the more he has to carry; the more one bears for some one else, the more he subtracts from his own. Some do their duty by doing good, and some by being good. No man can do less than carry his own responsibility; if he is able to do more let him enter into the trials of others...