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...overture to the Freichuetz was given with great warmth and vigor, notwithstanding slight uncertainness in the horns. The most interesting number on the programme was Mr. Kneisel's solo. The piece is a difficult one and requires enormous technique as well as sureness on the part of the player in order to be enjoyed. Mr. Kneisel possesses both these requisites. His playing of the chromatic runs, double stops, and artificial harmonics was perfection itself. A member of his delicate and chromatic runs, however, were lost to the auditor, being drowned by the din of the orchestra. The soloist richly deserved...
...under the elective system men are tempted to, and actually do, take a "soft" courses with the expectation of getting high marks, and so "freezing" on to a big fat scholarship. This has become so large an evil that the high scholars almost invariably shun very valuable but difficult courses, except as extras...
...publish an excerpt from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When...
...Carpenter' graceful skatings song was well received. The masterful playing of Vieuxtemps' "Regrets" by Mr. Hillebrand received the honor of a triple recall. The beautiful thought expressed by Brahms in the Lullaby needs no words of praise. For such a difficult piece, the Berlioz Marche was given with great spirit...
...list last year and in its place more attention is paid to the drawing in engineering 5, mathematics 5, formerly 7 and mechanics 1. Therefore anybody who wants to take mechanical drawing can only do so by attending one of the above named courses. As these courses are rather difficult and are not strictly mechanical drawing the student is at a loss what to do. It is not practice in manipulating drawing instruments that he wants, a thing he gets in engineering 1, 5 and 7, but practice in drawing machines, parts of engine bridges, etc., and this cannot...