Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...listener. The orchestral accompaniment was, in one or two passages, a little too heavy for the voice, but this fault was barely noticeable. The rendering of the two songs to Mr. Henschel's accompaniment was exquisite, and the audience responded with enthusiasm, calling Miss Beebe out four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner...
...descents on the patent fire-escapes the only thing that seemed to detract from the solemnity of the occasion was the frantic clutchings and clawings of the air by the unfortunate victims of the experiments. We may add that Mr. Knapp proposes to have an exhibition of other fire escapes in a few days, including the famous canvas chute arrangement. He also suggests that the students volunteer and take part in frequent practice in raising the extension fire-ladders...
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...repetition is unnecessary. The crew is somewhat lighter than last year, owing to the loss of Mumford, Woodward and Wesselhoeft; still the eight will average between 158 and 160 pounds. They are rowing with slides, and with a slow stroke - about 27 to the minute. As a general thing the form is excellent for this time of the year. The catch is firm and sharp, and the time in general is good, although there are one or two men who are apt to get tired, and break up the uniformity of the stroke. The slides are held very well, with...
...publishers of the new illustrated periodical, Life, it seems tous, display an undue and over-zealous eagerness to disclaim for their paper any tinge of college tone or influence. Without discussing whether or not such an influence would be after all so terrible a thing as it is painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion...