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...PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC.A course of eight public lectures on the Psychology of music will be given by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman in Sever Hall during January, February and March. The purpose of this course is to Inquire into the operations of the mind concerned in the hearing of music. An examination of the sensation of tone will be followed by an outline of Helmholtz's theory of the quality of musical notes and of recent opinion as to the nature of consonance and dissonance. The main structural characteristics of music will then be discussed psychologically, and a reference made...
...poet was next introduced, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr., '91. The poem was always happy and often brilliantly clever as it hit off the prowess and familiar characteristics of the men we have watched with such deep interest that we have grown to feel the reality of that often hypothetical thing, college brotherhood. From Lake to Cumnock, he went through the list and ended by declaring "There's no sweeter music than Twelve...
...history of Newbury says: Nine bachelors commenced at Cambridge, young men of good hope. In September, 16-12, it was the first class that was graduated at Harvard College. The first graduate was Benjamin Woodbridge of New bury. From the first Commencement in 1652, till 1773. degrees were conferred on the students, and their names arranged in the catalogue, not according to age, or scholarship, or the alpheber, but according to the rank their families held in society. This Benjamin Woodbridge was born in England but came to America in 1634 with his brother. He had been a member...
...Calamy says of Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, "He was a universally accomphshed person; one who had a strong, clear reason and profound judgment." Another says of him that "he was accounted among his brethren as a learned and mighty...
...foot ball dinner will take place this evening at the Revere House in Boston, at quarter past seven o'clock. Moses Williams, Jr., '91, will preside and the toast-master will be Arthur B. Nichols, '91. The orator will be George T. Goldthwaite, '91, the poet, Benjamin A. Gould, '91. Speeches will be made by Professor J. B. Ames, Professor John Williams White, Samuel E. winslow, '85, Arthur J. Comnock, '91, and Perry Treffind. L. S. Jacob Wendell, Jr., '91, will sing several songs, and Baldwin's orchestra has been engaged for the evening. There will be a separate table...