Word: sweet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...club is especially fortunate in its judges, having secured the services of President Sweet of the Boston Camera Club, Mr. W. S. Briggs and Mr. Benjamin Kimball. Besides the three regular prizes, a certificate of honorable mention will be awarded to any pictures which seem to deserve it. The public is invited to the exhibition, which will be open this evening from 7.30 to 9.30 and tomorrow afternoon and evening...
...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
Fearing (half backs) Sweet. (Emory...
...that in notes with fractional overtones there is always interference between the various pitches constituting the total mass of sound, while in notes of the integral class this does not occur except when very high overtones are present. They are absent in flute notes, those of the piano and sweet voices; their presence gives their sharp quality to string and reed instruments and their crashing timbre to instruments of brass. The next lecture will suggest that some supplementary considerations are needed fully to explain the aesthetic differences in notes...
Harvard men, therefore, feel that their withdrawal from the leagues last year was a blessing in disguise. It has placed them in a position to act with perfect independence, and they appreciate this fact. This fall has shown that a victory over Yale tastes just as sweet whether a "championship" depends upon it or not, and if there are to be contests with Princeton in the future they will doubtless be conducted on the same independent basis...