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...second number. This defect, it is true, prevails in most of the very good orchestras, but seldom to such a degree as in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Notwithstanding the lack of precision of some of the performers, the second number was well given and deserved more applause than fell to its share. The Largo of Haendel was also very well played, the solo part being taken by Mr. Kneisel and rendered in rather too mechanical and unsympathetic a style. Mr. Gericke did not respond to the encore given to the piece. The fourth Symphony of Beethoven was very well played...
...with a strong wind blowing; the evening was cold, and the streets, which had been deep with mud from Saturday's rain, dried up and became smooth and hard. Monday morning came, and the weather still held good; the high wind, which, as before, lasted during the day, fell at the approach of night, and the elements were at last propitious...
...oldest graduate at the time of the two hundredth anniversary was the Hon. Paine Wingate, of the class of 1759, who died in 1838. He was a class-mate of Dr. Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill...
HURDLE RACE.W. S. Crane won in 22 2 5 seconds. He was the only man to run through the hundles without accident. H. O. Poor fell, but picking himself up, beat R. Le B. Lynch who stopped to take a fresh start...
...Cricket with Harvard. The grounds of the Long-wood club were tendered them for the game. The bowling on both sides was good, Bohlen especially doing fine work for Harvard, while Leslie carried off the honors for Pawtucket. Harvard first went to the defence, and their last wicket fell for 93 runs, of which the unusually large number of 30 were for extras, when the Pawtucket side went in and only succeeded in scouring 81, thus Harvard won the match by 12 runs, the decision being on the first inning, as two could not be played before the time...