Word: strength
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fletcher's paper on "Poe, Hawthorne and Morality." is interesting, and his stand is well taken - that Hawthorne is the truly moral writer of the two - but as a whole the paper is uneven in strength...
...most interesting numbers on the programme. It is one of the best modern compositions which Gericke has offered us for some time. It's great strength lies in the rich and intelligent orchestration and in the intensely dramatic and vivid manner in which the fate Desdemona is portrayed. The composer has adhered to strictly his own ideas and by doing so he has given us a most delightful and refreshing piece of music. The overture to Tannhaeuser made a very fitting close. It was given with great warmth and vigor the conductor allowing the bass more freedom than...
...school is now in a position of great strength. It has a well-high perfect building, a well-chosen library, which is steadily increased and improved, hard working and competent teachers in the prime of their powers, an enthusiastic body of students, and a large number of loyal alumni scattered all over the country in positions of influence and trust. What the school needs is more teaching and more scholarships...
...higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools is in more or less severe training...
...Slumps badly and is too jerky in his movements. Should keep his shoulders down and should control his body coming forward to the full reach. Must be careful to use his stretcher, and not rely entirely on the strength of his body and arms...