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...Milk. "There is plenty of wine in the country, and people drink it with their meals, but they usually spend their evenings in coffeehouses, drinking strong coffee and hot milk. They sit in coffeehouses for hours, settle all the questions that vex the world, and go to bed at night happy and satisfied...
Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...
...Korsakoff's symphony is not exactly music for amateurs. Yet the amateurs of the society played both pieces with the accuracy that was borne of ease with their music, and full understanding of it, with hardly a technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian" so learned and mastered its music. Its hearers heard the fruits of diligence and tireless leadership animated by ambition and devotion. All this, however, was only the groundwork to the playing of the orchestra. Alike in the tone-poem...
...been: "Is he a good man?"-not, "What is his college?" I think that I can see the growth from year to year of a catholic spirit which naturally distinguishes the University from the College, and which eradicates gradually from its members the petty prejudices which too often vex the souls of undergraduates. Starting on a higher plane and with a more exacting standard than other clubs, its course thus far promises a future more splendid and useful than any other predecessors or contemporaries. I have heard complaints from within and without that its rules were too strict and exclusive...
...better that I die; living I shall vex...