Word: lows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...different tones used in a piece of music taken together embody a certain set of intervals arranged in a certain order from low to high. The fact of scale-structure in music is a second fundamental characteristic and consists in the tendency of different compositions to embody the same order of intervals. Such a generic interval order is called a scale...
...Waldstein, the representative at Athens of the Archaeological Institute of America, has, in accordance with the directions of President Seth Low of Columbia College, withdrawn the American claims to the right to carry on the excavations at Delphi. Under the terms of a treaty but lately negotiated, the French have revived their claims to the right of making these excavations. The Archaeological Institute raised money for the purchase of the village of Castri and for carrying on the excavations, under the impression that the French, by their rejection of a former treaty, had given up all intention of making...
Professor Marquand of Princeton, is in Chicago, lecturing in support of the American Institute of Archaeology. He is associated in this course with Professor Norton of Harvard, and President Low of Columbia...
...following events were decided upon: 40-yards dash, 300-yards dash, 600-yards dash, 1,000-yards run, one mile run, three-fourths mile walk, 250-yards low hurdle race, running high jump, standing high jump and pole vault for height...
...annual dinner of the Princeton Alumni of New York was held at the Hotel Brunswick, Thursday night. The speakers were James W. Alexander, president of the club; President Patton, Rev. Dr. H. J. Van Dyke, President Low of Columbia, Edward King of Harvard, and Chauncey M. Depew '56, of Yale. There were 225 guests present, about 175 less than at the dinner last year in celebration of the football victory. Music was furnished by the Princeton Glee Club...