Word: pleasingness
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Of the original compositions, the Sonata movements of E. Ballantine '07 showed a piano style of unusualy polyphony; the capricious "Apriltide," while trifling, was undeniable pleasing. Clapp's song "The Swimmer" showed the greatest individuality of style, the surest grasp of technique, and greatest power to sustain word.
The poetry is not strikingly good. "The Tale of the Stolen Squad" displays easy mastery of narrative verse and must have been fun to write. "Sea-Mist" is poetic--in part, at least--but only intermittently skilful in versification. It commits the indiscretion of beginning its first stanza with a...
The leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good...
F. Dexter '08, as Kommerzienrat Bolzau, around whom the play centres, made the most of an extremely funny part. O. L. M. H. Lyding '09 as Dr. Scheffler, had a part which could easily have been overdone, and which he acted with pleasing restraint. The most difficult part was that...
The play is a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while...