Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directors of Memorial Hall on Tuesday, a committee of two, with the president, was created, whose business it shall be to publish to the members from time to time all information about the conduct of the business of the association that will interest them and enlighten them upon the spirit and true workings of its affairs. The policy of the corporation of the college has been of late to throw the association as much as possible into the hands of the students, and it is to be hoped that the committee just mentioned will succeed in awakening a more active...
...commended for his excellent programme, though the performance of it at times left much to be desired. The opening number was the Perlude to Wagner's parsifal, of which the first half was well played, the strains of the Parsifal-motif coming out clearly and prominently. Beyond this the spirit of the piece seemed somehow to lose itself, so that the impression of the whole was that the music had gotten the better of the orchestra. The next number, Walther's Preislied, from Wagner's "Mastersingers," was not open to this criticism; the spirit was admirably sustained, with the only...
...except that in the third movement the sudden change to the "tempo primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern school, it was beautiful and impressive, without being difficult to grasp. The orchestra played it in a masterly manner, attaining a wonderfully soft pianissimo at the close...
...introduced Prof. BYerly, of the Harvard faculty, stating that as the dinner was an informal one there would not be any set speeches. Prof. Byerly referred with pride to the flourishing condition of the university, and of the benefit resulting to the students from athletic sports, which encouraged a spirit of manliness and of self-reliance. He was glad to be able to state that at present the relations between the faculty and the students were more cordial than formerly, and that the university was becoming every day more national; the number of New England students was decreasing, whilst...
...practice of playing match games in large cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...