Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beethoven. Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3. - 2. (a) Tschaikowski. Adagio from second quartet. (b) Cherubini. Scherzo from quartet in E flat. - 3. A. Ritter. Quartet in C minor...
...programme of the quartet concert to-night will include the quartet in F major op. 59, No. 1, Beethoven, the "Emperor" variations, Haydn, a canzonetta, Mendelssohn, and a posthumous quartet in D minor, Schubert...
Fuchs. Symphony in C major...
...that lawn tennis is so universally popular, a short account of its history will prove interesting. The inventor of the game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however...
...evidence of his guile safely wrapped up in a mass of waste paper. In preparing elaborate cribs, more time is frequently consumed than would be necessary to master the subject. Some of the cribs are works of art, and could serve as text books, containing nearly every part, major and minor, touched upon by the class in the study of the subject. Others are mere outlines, and still others contain nothing but the most difficult portions of the branch on which they are to aid their concoctors and manipulators. Some men make "cribbing" a science, and pride themselves upon their...