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...twice bowed his acknowledgments. The well-known Orpheus Symphonic poem, and the charming old Hayda variations were each finely interpreted, and served to bring out two very different kinds of excellence in the orchestra. The performance of the great Beethoven Symphony was one of the best we have heard, and was quite satisfactory in every respect. It was played with a precision, and with a dash and fire that left nothing to be desired. The final movement in particular, the presto, was given with charming delicacy, and accuracy in the softer passages, and an admirably self-controlled vigor...
...fearful sounding instruments-whose names are known only to members of the Pierian Sodality-is here found fault with; but the man who thinks he can yodel. This man, we grieve to say, has more faith in his ability than those who room near him, and who have heard him practising. "Love is blind, and cannot see," as we all know; and in this case love is deaf and cannot hear. That it is a case of love, there can be no doubt; for he, the typical yodeler pursues the object of his passion, the very elusive and unattainable yodel...
Yesterday, a Junior heard one Freshman say to another, "Let's go into Boston to-night on a devil of a toot. We won't be back till eleven o'clock." This is fact, not rumor...
...have recently been examining some of the bills that I paid during my freshman year. Here is one of them, which I confess I thought rather large, but which I paid, being a freshman and thinking it all right, always having heard a good deal of talk about Cambridge high prices...
...entrance-"Record, sir? only one cent." "Herald, Journal, Transcript, and Star." Then there are the theatre stairs in the transept, famous for being the rostrum of that orator so noted among college men, the great and only Damel Pratt. How many discourses in poetry and prose have been heard there, discourses on love, astronomy, metaphysics, philosophy, and politics in general, and on the "great Pratt from Prattville," in particular...