Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indications of the old, District-wide apathy toward visiting dignitaries had the planners resorting to psychological stratagems. Schoolchildren were told that if they got a note from home okaying their attendance at the reception, they would get a small Mexican flag. The reasoning was that, since no parent would let his child venture into the welcoming crowd alone, and no child would give up the flag without a prolonged and deafening squawk, the whole family would have to turn...
Whistler illustrated his own double nature by his signature: a butterfly with a stinger in its tail. Dante Gabriel Rossetti took note of the artist's duality in a limerick...
...flats rather than bricks and mortar, the Pierian Sodality is older than most of the more orthodox structures of the University, Memorial Hall included. Founded in 1808 by students anxious to improve their instrumental skills, the Sodality (Latin for fellowship) was at first more a social congregation than a note-following gathering. Yet their early addiction to mellow spirits rather than spirited melodies in no way obviates their claim to being "the oldest musical organization in America"-as well as Boston...
...name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
Admitting that "we didn't think we had much of a chance to win the Dartmouth meet," Taylor declared that "the season wound up on a good note," and pointed to the win over the Indians and a triumph in a triangular meet with Amherst and Yale during the spring vacation as proof that the schussmen have come a long way since the beginning of the year...