Word: surprisingness
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Chapel service was conducted by professors and tutors, who followed one another in the order of seniority, each accupying one week. Inasmuch as these devotional exercises were frequently performed in an indifferent and perfunctory manner by those who had little or no interest in them they were far from edifying...
That surprising evolutions in the art of music are still possible is periodically being proved. A decade ago, Wagner's principles were at last university accepted as the final musical laws on which the composers of the next century or so would base their compositions. Then Strauss began to develop...
In the second place, I should like to complain of the difficulty which I have encountered in getting a corps of ushers on whom I could depend. It may have been due to may own inability to find the right men; but I am inclined to think that the fault...
By far the best performance of the evening was that of "The Clod." Here the acting was so good as to make the illusion complete, and one became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a...
We believe, as a rule, in maintaining piously the old Harvard traditions. But we cannot help liking the way 1914 is setting out to smash one cherished Senior precedent of past years. The few men intending to leave at Mid-Years have, so we are told, responded with a surprising...