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...movements from Moszowsk's Suite No. 1, - an Andante with eight variations, including a charming moto contino for the first violins, and a Perpetuum Mobile with a complicated fugue, - are what might be called "elastic" music, - the triangle, piccolo and glockenspiel are often introduced. Though Moszowstki is of Russian descent he was born in Germany and his music savors more of the German School than the Russian. Both movements were played with fire and careful standing; Mr. Mole's difficult flute solo in the Andante being very skillfully executed...
...head. Whether ladies are present or not the same things happen. If after Vesper services, for instance, a man in a crowd walks into the gallery with his head covered, the disgraceful uproar at once begins. The visitors do not realize the meaning of it; too often they think it is a personal insult and are forced in common decency to retire, doubtless with very uncomplimentary opinions of Harvard courtesy...
...with their times; and Dr. Peabody was one of the most noted of these. Men early came to feel that he had a definite plan of life, - a plan for an indefinite immortal life; and they trusted him accordingly. Those who came from a distance probably heard him most often and valued him most highly; and though this made his influence as a preacher very wide, it is not solely, or even chiefly, as such that he is to be remembered...
...this nest that we should strive for, this position in which we feel ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...
...board walks and have done so in as feeble and incomplete a way as could only be equalled by the New York Cleaning Department. Absolutely no attention is paid to the paved or dirt walks or the entrance to Massachusetts or Harvard, which have been today as so often before, covered with slush and water, against which rubber boots alone are proof. Were these thoroughfares public ones the college authorities would be guilty of violation of city ordinances. Should absence of compulsion keep the powers that be from doing their plain duty towards the students...