Word: pleasingness
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Geo. Thatcher's Minstrels are trying to be original this week at the Boston; they fail, as most people who try to be original do, but they succeed in amusing and pleasing their audiences every night. Hoyt's "Midnight Bell" with Mr. McGlenens' benefit on Monday night is announced for...
A large crowd, including many ladies and graduates, gathered in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon to wintness the second and final winter meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association. The events, eight in number, consumed a couple of hours and were much more entertaining than those of last week. Some of...
In pleasing contrast with the spirit which gives us "Feb. 22, Sunday, Washington's Birthday; a holiday," is the announcement that the Law and Divinity Schools will have one whole day for a holiday in addition to the Sunday which the rest of us are to enjoy. It is a...
A delicious dramatic feast is that which Mr. and Mrs. Kendall offer theatre-goers this week. "All for Her" is a play which the late Lester Wallack produced at the Globe Theatre some years ago. It affords both Mr. and Mrs. Kendall abundant opportunities for the exercise of that versatility...
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has...