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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after a year's work of the hardest kind, and not by loafing. As it is Columbia will probably have learned something from her defeat last year, and will put a faster crew than ever on the water, so that the freshmen have got to brace more than usual if they wish to win. If eighty-nine wants an example to follow, let her take last year's University crew, a crew which probably worked harder and accomplished more than any crew Harvard has ever put on the water before...
...Cowen, Symphony, C Minor, Scandinavian. Of these numbers, the symphony was, of course, the piece de resistance. Although it has had several presentations in Boston, it is not so familiar that a few words of analysis will be out of place. The title "Scandinavian" promises something outside the usual order of things, and the promise is amply fulfilled. The most enjoyable movement is the second, "A summer evening on the fiord," one of the features of which is a beautiful love song, given out by the clarinet and interrupted by the distant notes of the horns. The third movement...
...slight slips, and it is a mystery to the writer how the first flute can be allowed to play so persistently flat and with so windy a tone. The Hungarian Rhapsody, with its gorgeous coloring was the most favorably received of the orchestral selections. Mr. Loeffler played in his usual conscientious and artistic manner, making a success of the extremely difficult finale of the concerto, but even he did not succeed in rousing the audience to any great pitch of enthusiasm...
This year's Christmas vacation is one week shorter than usual and recitations will begin Jan. 6. - Yale News...
There will be a recitation in Chemistry I this week at the usual time...