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Volkmann's Aria (Sappho) is entirely too dramatic for the concert stage. Miss Franklin, while possessing a strong and pleasant voice, did not give the Aria a broad enough interpretation. She was more successful in the Aria from "L'Amant Jaloux," a light but entertaining composition, which brought her a trifle recall...
...much as four hundred years ago it was a favorite game for sailors of the British navy to "lay houlde of an goode rope's twiste" and pull against an opposing party on the broad ship's deck, of a quiet afternoon. The number of contestants was practically unlimited, and the contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound...
...Running broad 23 ft. 3in., Ford...
...Standing broad, 10 ft. 9 3-4 in., Ford...
...that a large part of the students here are "non-society" men, and have nothing but a superficial acquaintance with their fellow-students outside of the narrow circle into which they may have happened to fall. The result is that they tail to receive the benefit of the broad and cosmopolitan influence that association with men of various types and coming from all points of the country must expect. A university club would obviate this, and besides affording social enjoyments, it would bring both students and instructors into close relations, and would make them feel that they were one body...