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...partial tones of one note must fall near enough to some of those of the other to produce this disagreeable interferference; while in all those called consonant the roughness from this source is insignificant in amount and the beauty of the tones involved can produce its full effect upon the ear. But later criticism has demanded a positive reason for the beauty of a concord and questions whether the character of an Interval depends to the extent asserted by Helmholtz upon the timbre of the notes comprising it. A view which may be ascribed to Von Oettingen points...
Statistics have been collected at New Haven in regard to the standing of athletic men which effectually confute the statements often made by uninformed persons to the effect that athletics tend to lower the standard of the men who engage in them. Below are given the number of men who received appointments who played on the university teams from the three upper classes, also the number receiving no appointment...
...have among Harvard societies of being a sure reward for faithful and persevering work. It will be no longer be possible to conquer one's way into the fraternity. The proportion of unsuitable men chosen under the regulation of rank would undoubtedly be small at any rate and their effect would be null in the society, which even now includes in its graduate body more than one man, chosen under more liberal rules than those in vogue last year, who has failed to set the world on fire. Would it not therefore have been almost as safe and much wiser...
...stories by the same author. It describes college life and the incident dealt with is treated in the same minute and carefully studied method. As a piece of literary composition, it is creditable; the proportions are well preserved throughout and the descriptive passages contribute satisfactorily to the general effect of the narrative. The subject of the story is not as praiseworthy. It deals with a feature of life here which is too easily seized upon by our enemies as a basis for their carping criticisms of Harvard life. It is therefore a question whether the publication of such a story...
...Opera House for the Centennial Ball, has charge of the decorating. The rafters and iron work in the roof will be covered with cloth of a cream tint stretched from the top of the ceiling down to the supports on the side walls, giving an arch or tent like effect. The side walls will be covered with bunting with Yale banners interspersed. The galleries will also be hung with bunting and flags. The design of the invitations is a Yale monogram in a leafy effect with the '92 class numerals intertwined with the letters. The dance orders are unique...