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...Cornell and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and an author and composer. He studied under Professor J. K. Paine and Arthur Foote and at one time lectured by special invitation at the University of Oxford, England. In his address he will give suggestive comments and discussion on the structure and context of the work; and the whole composition will then be performed by the Olive Mead Quartet. The work is typical of Brahms, who is pre-eminent in expressing the modern romantic spirit in the classical musical forms. It was composed in 1869 and is the second of Brahms' three great...
...lecture to be given tomorrow evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum by Mr. Thomas Whitney Surette of New York. The lecture is to be upon Brahms' Quartet in A minor, op. 51, No. 2, and Mr. Surette will make suggestive comments on the structure and context of this great work. The whole composition will then be performed by the Olive Mead Quartet of New York. In this way a rare opportunity is afforded to hear a standard work in connection with stimulating discussion. Since Mr. Surette is bringing on the quartet from New York entirely...
...especially in the portion relating to Mr. Sanford's story, the reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about...
...very affected vocabulary. About one half the sonnets begin with "O" or "Thou," and it is a chance if the author can get through without using "lush," or mentioning the nightingale; a bird rarely seen or heard, and so very useful, since imagination fills up the blank as the context requires.* What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better not write it at all. But while I have been making these reflections...
...Yale Record calls our attention to an article on swearing in its issue of October 14, which propounds the following conundrum: "If you lacerate the feelings of the more decent portion of society with your oaths and imprecations, are you a gentleman? " The context clearly shows that the answer "No" is intended. In a recent number we noticed that the Yale navy had passed some resolutions announcing that Mr. Cook is a gentleman. The conclusion to be drawn from these two premises we have never seen categorically asserted even by Yale...