Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Like David's altar on Moriah's rock...
...stand like Joshua's army while it blows...
...innocent young fellow whom you frightened like a bear...
...College Fours and Eights, to be called, respectively, the "Visitors' Cup" and the "Ladies' Cup," nearly all the colleges would send crews to one or both. Cornell, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard would possibly meet in the "Ladies' Cup," while the same colleges, and many of the smaller ones, like Dartmouth, Princeton, etc., would send fours to compete in the other race. Since the disbanding of the Association of American Colleges the smaller institutions have been left out in the cold, and although, doubtless, ready and willing to row, they have found no suitable races in which to enter. Here...
...perhaps will never again be so well expressed in tones as here. But in interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor, as if the musicians were blindly carried along by this torrent of intoxicating sounds. Perhaps this feeling can only be awakened fully when the scenery on the stage helps...