Word: minor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is a prima donna. She is in a dress made by Worth. This is about all the worth she has. She cannot sing, but she kisses in G minor. She is performing a hymn; some notes are so soft that you cannot hear them. These are her best notes.-[Music...
Prelude, from the music to OEdipus Tyrannus, . . Paine "La Captive," reverie for contralto, . . . . . . Berlioz Unfinished symphony in B minor (by desire) . . Schubert "There was an Ancient King," ballad for contralto, Henschel Symphony in A No. 7 (by desire), . . . . . . Beethoven Soloist, Miss Mary...
...official circulars of Oxford and Cambridge Universities were, we believe, taken as models for the Bulletin; and of all dreary reading, they afford the dreariest. Aside from the minor consideration of precedence, we do not, after all, see why it is not possible to enlarge the Bulletin so that it may become a suitable organ of the university. The official circulars of the Johns Hopkins University, containing extensive synopses and reports of work and results reached by their investigators, as well as legal announcements, is certainly an interesting and successful publication; and Harvard should not longer remain in need...
Yale College seems to be running the government of the Sandwich Islands. Two judges of the Supreme Court, the superintendent of schools, the attorney general and some minor officers are graduates of the New Haven institution. It's to be hoped, for the sake of the islands, that these Yale men behave better than they did at college. If not, Honolulu howls...
...When the college has an annual deficit of $20,000 or $30,000, and in consequence thereof is compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction, should not efforts be made to remove these disabilities before they are made for securing accommodations chiefly for future use or for minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon the ill-organized and poorly paid instruction of the freshman year at Harvard. And even if the faculty does intend soon to remodel and raise the standard of our freshman...