Word: originated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expressiveness the position of first importance must be given to those of movement, of the force involved therein and even sometimes of the form which it describes. Especially are suggestions of human movement bodily, vocal or spiritual, a powerful element in musical expression. According to this view of its origin, the main characteristics of the poetic effect of music are its intensity and its vagueness. While music has no definite poetic meaning whatever, it has an infinite poetic content...
...written by a specialist. Of especial interest to college men are "The Sports of an Irish Fair," "Association Football," "A Bout with the Gloves." in "The Sports of an Irish Fair," Robt. F. Walsh puts in a claim for Ireland as the country where base ball had its origin. "Association Foot Ball" is a plea for this particular branch of football. The author thinks that football as played under the association rules ought to become the national winter pastime of boys and men, and predicts that the lovers of the sport will soon see a team in every large city...
...California series this month takes up the Fremont explorations, first with a brief paper giving a resume of the five explorations; second, with a paper by Mrs. Fremont on the "Origin of the Fremont Explorations"; and third, with a posthumous narrative of the terrible experiences of the fourth expedition under the title of "Rough Times in Rough Places...
...students at the Annex, Miss Annie P. Henchman, has just written an exceedingly scholarly paper on "Origin and Development of the Central Nervous System in Limax Maximus...
Professor Taussig closed his talk with a brief review of the origin of the present free coinage bill. It comes not from the silver states but from the general depression and hard times throughout the West and the feeling among the farmers that in some way this bill will remove the pressure. The real difficulty in the West is not a scarcity of money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences...