Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rhythm of this great University" was the advice given to the Freshmen last night in the first of the regular Monday evening meetings held in the Smith Hall Common Room by Professor Bliss Perry. "I am sorry," he said, "for those who go through this college and never discover what Harvard University is, but not sorry for that fellow who comes here from far off, and feels out of place and awkward, but who does the real thinking, dreams the dreams which have changed the face of the whole world." He said he was sorry for the "spoon fed" fellow...
...keenest attention by everyone commanding or serving in troops. "Sensory and motor reactions," etc. may possibly seem out of place in an article on drilling, but nothing is more certain than that a proper knowledge of mass psychology is the most important part of what Mr. Allport calls "the rhythm of the army cadence," at least in its early developments. The whole point of his article is that "man is made by nature for individual combat, not for drill or fighting en masse." Consequently he must be mechanically trained for soldiership, so that in the hour of actual test...
...Eileen," formerly "Hearts of Erin," Mr. Herbert is in his very happiest musical vein, the love themes being handled with exquisite melodies, the "ensemble" music being particularly vivacious and stirring, and a new triumph for the composer appearing in his patriotic songs, the dash, rhythm, and swing of which brought repeated encores from an audience whose applause was induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite...
...their rendering of "Fair Harvard," adapted for their purposes and used otherwise only for marching, criticised as "mutilated ragtime." "Fair Harvard" is only one selection from a medley played by the band during regimental manoeuvres, and has been changed from 6-8 to 2-4 time, so that the rhythm may be fit for marching. There is a distinct difference between march time and rag-time...
...were to follow Mr. Palmer's suggestion of "unscrambling" the classics, we would be only creating another chaos. Specialization in a certain field is, of course, of importance for the graduate student. But I cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first...