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...listener to msuic, of the sound of a note of a certain pitch. This tension of expectancy requires to be resolved at all the points of rest in the music and at its close. Tonic structure consists in the return of a composition at these moments to a note whose image its previous course has awakened in the mind in this form of latent anticipation. There is evidence that the habitude of awaiting the sound of a certain note was a feature of the music of the early Christian church, and its extence may even be surmised in Greek melody...
...candidates for the Cornell Freshman crew have been reduced to fourteen men, whose average weight is 162 pounds...
Fiction by no means predominates in this number. Besides Tolstoi's story there is one by E. H. Crosby called "The Professor's Daughter" and an installment of the serial "Mademoiselle Reseda," illustrated by McVickar, with whose types the editor's Drawer of Harper's has made us familiar. These with a few verses go to make up the number...
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others...
...plan of election was, with a two-fold purpose, changed from a strict adherence to rank; first, to permit the choice of men who deserve the honor but have been prevented by illness or other unavoidable circumstances from reaching the requisite rank; secondly, to permit the rejection of those whose marks are good but whose abilities do not promise for the future. This change is substantially a return to methods in vogue until very recently, but a more liberal concession than ever before granted to the immediate members in their choice. Under the new regulation the election will be held...