Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hour of midnight strikes. The more illustrious and more sedate of the company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer...
...many men with fair or even excellent voices, which they never make use of, merely for the reason that they have never had the opportunity nor taken the trouble to learn to read music. Men are apt to suppose that because they are not exquisite first tenors, or stentorian bassos, they can never gain any pleasure or profit from a knowledge of reading music. But it must be remembered that an indifferent voice with slight cultivation is very much improved, and often developes into a voice of excellent quality. We hope that at the next meeting of Mr. Carey...