Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...overcome this defect. On the whole Miss Stewart was not up to the average of symphony soloists. She was most successful in the Mad Song from "Hamlet" which displayed the powers of her voice to best advantage. The music of this "Scene," however, is hardly up to the level of Shakespeare. The set of Persian Love Songs by Rubinstein would have had a better effect in a smaller auditorium. Weber's "Freischuetz" overture made a fitting end and climax to the evening's music. Here the orchestra was again effective and vigorous...
...they have left the world behind them and with it all chauce of doing good. One should throw himself thoroughly into the times in which he lives. Although he will meet with impurity and corruption yet he will be doing his share to raise mankind to a higher level...
...opportunity to explain how the club is run. Under the new management the club seems to be showing more activity than before and a determination to improve We hope it will reform some existing deficiencies, and as the concert of last Friday seems to promise, rise to the highest level it has ever attained...
...certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped on the fire, layers of clay and sand were laid over the whole mound and its use forever destroyed. Another of the Turner mounds is on a higher level than the rest and is built so as to face the East, thus showing indisputably that the sun was worstripped by these people...
...saving at the time of purchase. Two years ago we were asked to take this saving under another form. The old system, it was complained, kept the supply of ready money short, and unnecessarily irritated the Cambridge tradesmen. It was therefore proposed to raise prices almost to the outside level, in order that the society might carry a larger and better stock; and the net surplus for the year was to be distributed in dividends. There is no reason why this should not be a better plan than the old one. As the result of its actual working under...