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...orchestra, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, has been practicing steadily during the fall in anticipation of the winter season, and it has planned three special pieces for its opening program. The first will be Handel's Overture to the Ode for Saint Cecelia's Day, for strings and obees, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from...
Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
Sirs: Some months ago I was interested in reading a brief description-I believe it was in your "Letters" column-of the correct pronunciation of certain names and places in England. The enclosed clipping from the London Evening Standard, with its "duly authenticated Explanatory Ode" may be of use to those of your readers who are contemplating a visit to these shores...
...Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
...associate sublimity with Gray's 'Elegy', or even the 'Ode' of Wordsworth. If by sublimity she means reflecting magnificence of mind, sublimity has certainly vanished from the poetry of the last 30 years...