Word: minor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...programme for the Symphony Concert this evening is as follows: Serenade No. 7 in D major, "Haffner," Mozart; Symphony No. 5, C minor, Beethoven; Academic Overture, Brahms...
...Copeland complained that outside of Jonson's ballad, "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," almost no works of the minor dramatists of the Elizabethan age are read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
Pains will be taken to make the minor details of the debate better than usual. In order that people may not become weary at protracted speaking, the debaters will be restricted to fifteen minutes each and no more. There will be an admission fee of 25 cents charge. The managers regret the necessity of this step, but could not otherwise pay the expenses of the theatre and the travelling expenses of the judges. As these debates are becoming more and more university events, there is no reason why the theatre should not be well filled, even if an admission...
...fifth of the series of Symphony Concerts will be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45. The programme is as follows: Symphony No. 1, C minor, Brahms; Aria from "Alceste," Gluck; Overture, "Euryanthe," Weber; Aria, "Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster," Weber; Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky. Mrs. Amalia Materna will be soloist...
...with an article by Reginald C. Robbins,- "One of our Criminals." The author tells the story of a switchman whom drink brings to misfortune, and misfortune to the crime of manslaughter through a mistake in switching. As a whole, the story is very well written; but it has some minor faults which spoil its full effectiveness, though they do not by any means destroy the interest of the tale. It is not well to attach any great importance to a presumably careless slip, but it is amusing to hear of a dying wife "gazing forth contentedly" at her husband...