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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...different rates. In some sources of tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes; the former class including all musical instruments properly so called. The cause of this aesthetic distinction Helmboltz found in the fact that in notes with fractional overtones there is always interference between the various pitches constituting the total mass of sound, while...
...Farley has spent his life partly in Providence, R. L., and partly in Brooklyn, N. Y., in charge of Unitarian congregations. At present he resides in Brooklyn, where he is pastor emeritus of a Unitarian church. He is the author of several works relating to the church and like matters. His photograph hangs in the college library...
...gate, as has been already announced, is the gift of Mr. George v. L. Meyer, of the class of '79, and will be placed between Holworthy and Thayer. Like the gate between Massachusetts and Harvard, it will have a granite underpinning, and will be built of brick and free stone. It is intended, while preserving the general character of the North Avenue gate, to make the gate in every respect subordinate, its principal posts representing in scale the dimensions of the smaller posts of the North Avenue gate. Seen from the Delta it will present a recessed entrance, about forty...
...Metropolitan Opera House for the Centennial Ball, has charge of the decorating. The rafters and iron work in the roof will be covered with cloth of a cream tint stretched from the top of the ceiling down to the supports on the side walls, giving an arch or tent like effect. The side walls will be covered with bunting with Yale banners interspersed. The galleries will also be hung with bunting and flags. The design of the invitations is a Yale monogram in a leafy effect with the '92 class numerals intertwined with the letters. The dance orders are unique...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...