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...Consistent policy and permanent reform the result of party rather than of independent action. - (a) Individual action is spasmodic and not sustained; T. Roosevelt, pp. 72, 73. - (b) Independent action is seldom thorough...
...whole trouble lies in the fact that the grand stand is not large enough to enable every man in college to have a good seat rather than in the method of selling the seats. And this difficulty is one not easily obviated. It is a pleasant thing to talk about seeing that every man in college is provided with one seat. But half the men in college don't want to be provided with one seat, they want enough seats to be able to take their friends, and they are just selfish enough to be satisfied with nothing else. Moreover...
...best stories of the number is "That City Chap." a tale of country life. The spirit of the New England village life is rather faith fully produced and the action of the story is simple...
...orchestra, and developed into an intricate maze of short phrases worked to a climax and ending, then, quietly, in a soft passage. The second movement is odd in every way, even in its name, "Valse Melancholique," itself a seeming contradiction. The waltz time is sustained but the music is rather funereal than bright. The third movement, the exact opposite of the second, is a "scherzo." There is no regular theme, but an entanglement of a lot of minor ideas which produce no impression but that of confusion. The final movement, a theme with variations, is a technical work of little...
...fifth number, the overture "Euryanthe," by Weber, seemed rather below the rest of the programme, if not in point of musical worth, at least in popularity. The enthusiasm flagged at this piece, but the concert which it ended was undeniably one of the best yet given in Cambridge...