Word: minor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...author may be found under his name. The subject catalogue is almost unique, the only other system with a similar principle being that used by Yale. Elsewhere a "dictionary catalogue" is used. In the subject catalogue there are about five hundred main subjects under which are grouped minor subjects in the same general field. Thus the general subject "Languages" is divided into countries and these sub-divided again into grammars, histories of the different tongues, dialects...
...Index, finally, makes this system easy and practicable, by showing how the minor are grouped under the major heads, and by a simple numerical method of referring to different drawers...
...Modern Language Conference. Speakers: Professor Schilling, "The Goths and other Germanic Tribes in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor." Mr. W. C. Lane. "Suggestionr on the Use of the College Library." Warren House, second floor...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra. The feature of the evening, however, was the singing of Miss Aagot Lunde, a mezzo-soprano of remarkably sympathetic voice. In her selections from Grieg, she showed great power of adaptation--first, in "The Autumn Gale," full of action, but with the dreariness of the Norwegian minor; then in Eet Syn, a short, vivacious snatch of song; and finally in Solweig's Cradle Song, deeper in quality with a peculiar languishing movement...
...Peer Gynt Suite" played by the orchestra was enthusiastically received. In "Morgenstimmung," where Grieg gives the scene of Peer's death, the joyousness of the daybreak is strangely contrasted with the sad minor strains of which death is the theme. In "Aase's Tod" is expressed the sinking to rest of a soul wearied with the sorrows of life. "Anitras Tanz" is an infectious little dance into which Grieg has introduced an Oriental element. The final movement, 'In der Halle des Berg Konig's," introduces the troll music, an exuberant staccato, illustrative of the grotesque, fantastic, splendor of the unearthly...