Word: tones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish a few paragraphs from Mr. Wendell's article on "Social Life at Harvard" in the current number of Lippincott's. This sketch, one of the most admirable, both for accuracy and for the general tone of treatment which have been published for some time, de serves the careful perusal of all who are interested in the welfare of "the foremost university of America." The paper is written with great care and presents most impartially the social condition of life at Harvard as it at present exists. With the exception of the one or two remarks of questionable taste...
...striking march of Rubinstein was well played and the rhythm kept throughout. The 1st violins were beautifully smooth, while the good tone of the flute was especially noticeable...
...fullness of tone produced by the 1st violins in the Gounod-Brand was better than we have ever heard before at a Pierian Concert; and too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Forchheimer for developing such a body of strings. But in the Seranade of Jonas all the instruments were not in tune...
...best, it is followed by another sketch, "An Unpleasant Reminiscence," which is decidedly disappointing. As to the two stories, "Right or Wrong?" and "Violin," the former is a peculiar but not unlikely tale well brought out, the latter is a vivid piece of writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves tile praise. A collection of six daily themes selected from English XII. forms a pleasant innovation. The first and the fifth are particularly clear...
...kindly accused the students in History 13 of laziness because they clamor for a list of general readings - a just observation, perhaps, but let us look at the situation for a moment. '88 does his topic reading, and, if we can judge from the tone of his communication, he does it with marked success. He can always find the books, and that is exactly the reason we can't. After the lecture we go to the library and find that "88 has the reserved book in queseion, and sadder still, the only reserved book. If there is no impropriety...