Word: minor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every way, even in its name, "Valse Melancholique," itself a seeming contradiction. The waltz time is sustained but the music is rather funereal than bright. The third movement, the exact opposite of the second, is a "scherzo." There is no regular theme, but an entanglement of a lot of minor ideas which produce no impression but that of confusion. The final movement, a theme with variations, is a technical work of little interest to the ordinary hearer...
...last minute to play right guard in the place of Stearns who broke a bone in his hand; Newell at right tackle suffers more or less from heart trouble, and should really not have played yesterday; and Putnam at right end has been laid off on account of minor injuries. Altogether the condition of the team was not such as to make a very good showing possible, and the game that they played yesterday was remarkable for its bull-dog pluck...
...plan by President Harper. Four quarters each composed of two terms of six weeks, cover the entire year, and the student chooses any two terms for vacation. Courses extend through one quarter, and are classified as major, with a minimum of ten hours work a week, or minor, with a minimum of four...
Poetry is the form of literature least capable of translation. In recent years it has suffered from the expression of the realists. What has escaped has been a model for English writing minor poets, who, unable to bring over the impalpable essence of poetry, have with great perseverance devoted themselves to form. Hence their passionate love of the various French metros...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...