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...practical knowledge of music; that is, to any one who has an acquaintance with the keys and chords as well as a knowledge of notes and their values. That is all that is meant by "practical knowledge" in this case. It is the object of this course to give the student a thorough and accurate knowledge of the development of music from the time of its birth. Its progress and the new impulses that it received from the different masters are fully discussed. The opera - both the Italian and Bouffe - is taken up from the time of its invention...
Math. 9. - Analytic Mechanics - may almost be regarded as the summing up of pure Mathematics, for it finds a use for the most advanced methods of analysis, and thus has had much to do in stimulating and shaping mathematical progress. Its object is the development of the theory of force and motion in the most general mathematical forms. The previous study of Physics 1 is an advantage in this course, but not a necessity. Math. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are necessary, but 6 may be taken at the same time. Math. 10 is designed for students who have taken...
...pulls the fastest, very often reaching to 36, while Weld and Holworthy keep down to 30 or less, very rarely above. As the desired end of every crew is to pull together, the slower the stroke - to a certain point, say 28 or 30 per minute - by which this object is attained, the better; and in this we are supported by the best authority. However, it rests with each captain to pull the stroke that pleases him best, and the result of the races will judge it. Of the Matthews Six it is difficult to say much. They are more...
...Latin, Professor Greenough will mark entirely on examinations. Course II. is intended for the men who have passed the advanced entrance examinations, and, in general, for Freshmen of the A Divisions. Latin III. is essentially philosophical. The object is to enable men to read Philosophy in Latin; and although the tenets in the various schools are not the main object of the course, they will be brought in constantly...
...they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they would all come back to her, as having discovered and worked out for herself, by the experience of generations, what were the real demands of a liberal education, whose object was to make...