Word: tone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Globe Theatre some years ago. It affords both Mr. and Mrs. Kendall abundant opportunities for the exercise of that versatility of genius which characterizes the acting of both of these charming artists. It is far more pleasing than their play of last week, "The Squire," and a higher moral tone pervades the different scenes of the drama. "All for Her" will be given tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening; the rest of the week "The Weaker Sex" will take its place...
...structural characteristic first to be noticed in them is that the changes of pitch they exhibit are not contiguous but discrete: a musical composition consists of a mass of different notes, the closest together of which in pitch are still distinctly separate. In the vocal production of tone this character of discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental...
Since the present senior class came to college the whole tone of college life at Harvard has changed, and it has changed for the better. It is interesting to note these changes, and to recall the condition which brought them about. Before 1887-88 the restrictions upon the personal liberty of a student amounted to very little. He was nominally obliged to attend recitations, but so little was the rule regarded that it was the custom for a party of no small number to take an extended tour during the winter term. Athletics were not under control. Athletic organizations might...
...restrict the liberties of students on probation, and later made attendance on lectures more compulsory, and obliged men to return to college on the prescribed days. Everything tends toward the more direct supervision of the undergraduate, which is for the best if not carried too far. When the tone of the college has been raised to the proper point, it will be harmful for the Faculty not to recognize the fact. There is a limit to the amount of beneficial supervision just as there is a point where supervision is necessary...
...things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with the ever varying varieties of tone-color of the different instruments, the effect is far differenct...