Word: sentimentality
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...concert opened with Gluck's charming overture to "Iphigeine en Aulide," which was the only orchestral selection on the programme that could lay claim to any musical form or organism. Its absolute purity of style and sentiment made it the more interesting as the rest of the programme was a mere jumble of tunes. The Svendsen symphony in B is an example of what a certain class of modern symphony writers will compose and label with the name of Symphony. A name to which they can only lay claim thorough their customary division into slow and fast movements. In this...
...matter of college discipline is simplifying here yearly, and, in his report on this subject, the dean merely voices and opinion that is held by every one, when he states that order is kept principally by the college sentiment as a whole. All in all, the university at large has every reason to feel proud of the advancement and progress which Harvard is making year by year in every direction. And we shall have every reason to be gratified if the next report shows as successful a year as the last...
...aspiring university has called upon public sentiment to sustain them in their claims and we can do no better than refer them to the editorial taken from a leading paper for an idea of what the outside world thinks, which we print in another column...
...that discipline among the students has required the action of the faculty in but few cases during the year, and that on all ordinary occasions the unruly element, which may be presumed to exist in any body of a thousand young men, is kept in control by the powerful sentiment of the great majority, which has proved a far more effective instrument for the maintenance of good order and gentlemanly conduct than the system of minute regulations formerly in force. The college library has received an accession of 8441 books during the year, and the university library, which includes...
...perhaps unnecessary to criticize the singing of the Glee Club, which is justified by its great popularity. We venture to suggest, however, that while it is characterized by great accuracy and precision, there is about it a certain stiffness and lack of sentiment. The modulation, crescendos, decrescendos are not so much attended to as one mingt expect. The voices are exclleent and the men in good training. if they could be led to sing with a little more sympathy their glees would be greatly improved. The faults to be found with the Pierian Sodality are precisely supplementary to these...