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...music is more than a fact of hearing; it is a power in the soul of the hearer. We can almost never listen to beautiful textures of notes without being moved and set dreaming by them. These effects upon the emotional and imaginative natures are often regarded as the element of essential value in music. We conclude on the contrary that the aesthetic worth of what may be called the acoustic content of music is in no wise inferior to that of its poetic expression. Significance can give no higher beauty to a composition than that to which...
Among the suggestions which enter into musical expressiveness the position of first importance must be given to those of movement, of the force involved therein and even sometimes of the form which it describes. Especially are suggestions of human movement bodily, vocal or spiritual, a powerful element in musical expression. According to this view of its origin, the main characteristics of the poetic effect of music are its intensity and its vagueness. While music has no definite poetic meaning whatever, it has an infinite poetic content...
There is a great difference between the Psalms and the Greek hymns. The Greeks exalt their Gods it is true, but there is lacking that controlling element which is to be found in the Psalms, the formulation of the communion of the soul with God. For this reason the Psalms were the hymn book of the Jews and continue to this day to be the hymn book of modern Christian nations...
There is no writer on athletic matters who has a better or a wider clientele than Mr. Whitney among the amateur sportsmen of the college, athletic clubs, and the better element of sportsmen generally. His experience, his training, and his associations have all tended to make him thoroughly competent, and his weekly comments and criticisms will be sure to command attention. "What Whitney says" has so often helped the perplexed captain of a team, or settled the final standing of a doubtful amateur, that what he will have to say in the Weekly will carry weight with it, and will...
...rather to a misunderstanding of the character of the dinner than to total indifference. A class dinner is always one of the most democratic gatherings in college. Every man gives up altogether whatever clique or society feeling he may have to make the class the unit; every element is united into one body which has the welfare of the class for its first object...