Word: purest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rendering of his programs. There can be no better foundation for a musical career-and for those less interested in the art, no pleasanter way of spending an hour and a half-than in hearing these masterpieces of Beethoven, Mozart and other composers. The stringed quartette the highest and purest form of instrumental music. We venture once more to urge college men not to let these opportunities slip by unheeded. Let Sever 11 be filled tonight with a truly representative Harvard audience...
...movement were most cordially received by the audience, while Mendelssohn's Scherzo seemed to be the favorite number in the second part. As in the last concert given here by this quartet, the number of college men present was few. When such splendid opportunities for hearing the highest and purest form of music are presented to us, it is difficult to understand why men do not avail themselves of these privileges. The next concert will be on March 21st...
There is no harm in not reading very many books. A great many, as Lord Bacon said, may be read by deputy. And the valuable deputy for French is St. Beuve, the purest critic who ever wrote...
...making for a number of public meetings, at which addresses are to be made in German by wellknown men. Every movement of this character tending to bring into greater prominence as objects of study, literatures foreign to our own, but containing much that is of the loftiest and purest character must be commended. We shall congratulate the Deutscher Verein for having done useful work, if its plans are successfully carried...
...Ingoldsby and His Legends" is an appreciative study of the writer of that remarkable book of tales. The writer points out with effect the main characteristics of Barham's poetry and of the general attitude of mind portrayed in it. These "legends" abound with some of the purest fun in the English language and it is extraordinary that they are comparatively so little known...