Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...call the attention of our readers to the sacred concert to be given next Sunday evening at Lyceum Hall. Prof. Jackson is a well known musician, and should be given a warm reception. He will perform during the evening his latest composition, the "Harvard College March," which he has dedicated to '82. It will shortly be published by White, Smith & Co. of Boston...
...weeks, or perhaps days, of hard "grinding" for examinations. The mind, unaccostomed to such work, naturally gives way under the strain of so much knowledge forced into it in such a short time, and forgets usually in as few days as were required to learn it. One can perform ten hours work each day with the brain as readily as with the muscles of the body, provided it is done regularly, and commenced from a small beginning...
True, there are cases in which the student has a very poor constitution to start with, but, owing to his ambition to excel, studies beyond his powers. To such our remarks cannot apply, but the indisputable fact remains, that were we to perform our work faithfully from day to day, it would seem much easier, and we should see that the fault was not altogether to be laid at the door of our instructors...
...beauty of the work, but we find that for a promiscuous audience it will only enhance the interest and enable them to better gain the needful understanding of the tragedy. The actors, all carefully chosen, enter thoroughly into the spirit of the great work which they are to perform. It is needless for us to speak of the wonderful acting of Mr. George Riddle, whose fame has already been established. If such a thing were possible, we should say that he has even improved, both in voice and action, since the Sanders Theatre production...
...reap his share of advantage. "But no man should stint himself or feel that he is pecuniarily indebted to the University," as the Crimson has previously maintained. In the case of the College Fund it becomes a graceful act of generous appreciation, not a duty which all should perform...