Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concert with a rather better impression; its performance last night was hardly up to its usual high standard, a frequent raggedness and unevenness being evident, as well as lack of precision in following the conductor's beat. The melodious overture of Schubert's, however, fared rather better than the rest, and was played in a way that well brought out its charming and overflowing melody. The soloist was Mr. Gilse, the leading cellist of the orchestra, than whom it has been our fortune to hear few better performers when at his best; which he apparently was not last night...
...perfect work of art, the appreciation of the grandeur, and simplicity of a great event, was likely to be diminished. Therefore, it seemed to Dr. Everett, that it was inappropriate to commemorate the greatness of Washington by a monument that was to be regarded for its beauty alone. The rest of Dr. Everett's address, was occupied in the disession of the limitations of an artist-in regard to the interpretations of his subject,-and in regard to the regard for the morale of the subject, Dr. Everett closed his address by reciting some lines written by him after passing...
...describe Mr. Dougherty's lecture would be impossible. It was the sort of discourse over which the reporter lays down his pencil, forgets his task, and becomes absorbed in the speaker, along with the rest of the audience. Mr. Dougherty's subject was Oratory, and he used his theme to speak both of what orators are, and what they ought to be. The charm of the lecture, however, lay in the illustrations which the speaker applied to his subject. He told anecdotes in a way which convulsed his audience; he imitated the performances of orators, and would-be orators...
Sophomore them IV. will be returned to-day, from 2 to 4.30 P. M., as follows; Fessenden to Pearl in Sever 1; the rest of the class in Sever...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme IV. will be returned on Thursday, March 19th, from 2 to 4.30 P. M., as follows: Fessenden to Pearl in Sever 1; the rest of the class in Sever...