Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another anonymous gift of the most welcome sort has just been made. It is the gift of a new Library Reading-room, to stand just south of the present stack. This reading-room is to be large enough to seat comfortably 400 persons at one time, and to provide also large spaces for departmental libraries and seminary work. The plans are in preparation from sketches made by the librarian...
...great trouble with a man's perfecting himself is the fact of self-consciousness. The man who aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...
...program came Bizet's Suite, "L' Arlesienne" No. 1. The opening movement is a swinging march with the air by the cellos and a peculiar counter theme in the wood wind. In the second movement the flutes carry the air with an accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst...
Miss Wetzler played Weber's Concert stuck in F minor with accuracy and precision. The work makes more demand on ability to play accurately than on an artistic sense, and consequently gives the soloist a chance to show excellence of only one sort...
...next year. When I make this suggestion, I am fully aware of the care and responsibility that this would bring upon the shoulders of all who might be concerned with the presentation, but I have heard one or two members of the Faculty hint that some venture of the sort ought to be set on foot, and on that score feel justified in suggesting such an undertaking. The first objection to this would be that it takes an enormous amount of time to perfect anything of this sort; but who will not acknowledge that if the Dickie and Pudding private...