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Andante for Violin and Violoncello. . . Henschel. From the "Serenade in Canon Form...
...former Japanese students of Prof. Max Muller have recently made a valuable discovery of Sanscrit manuscripts in Japan, consisting of the text of a part of the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists, which before had only been known to exist in Mongolian translations. This is not the first time that important Sanscrit texts have been found and rescued in China or Japan...
...inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English...
...some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of a professional character; and if the dry-goods business is the only one represented, it is safe to say the guests will talk "shop...
When undergraduates remind us of "the generally acknowledged value of mathematics in mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful...