Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harris E. Sawyer, A. B. 1891, A. M. 1893, Ph. D. (Chemistry) 1895; IV. yr. Graduate School; Chemistry. Studying at Copenhagen...
...first number on the programme was the Overture "Ossian' by Niels W. Gade, one of the most gifted of living composers. The Overture won for him in the year 1841, a prize offered by the Copenhagen Musical Union, and after its first performance, he was immediately taken into royal favor and treated with the greatest distinction. Scenes from the tales of the old bards, of peace and war suggest themselves to the bearer as he listens to the soft, melodious parts by the violins and the harsh discordant flare of the brass instruments...
...first number is a substantial one in size and in contents. Among its contributors are Professor Sidgwick of Cambridge, Professor Hoffding of Copenhagen University, Felix Adler and and William M. Salter. Professor Royce contributes a review of the "Way out of Agnosticism" by Dr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot, formerly instructor in Philosophy at Harvard. Professor Royce characterizes Dr. Abbot's "modern" and "American" method of philosophical argument as essentially vicious and injurious...
...Reynolds writes back from London that the Scandinavian Students' Conference will be held August 7-12 in the neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. "About one hundred students are expected from the Universities of Christiana in Norway, Upsala and Lund in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark." Mr. Reynolds will represent the American students' movement at that conference. To Northfield it is probable that there will be delegates from France and Germany and Sweden, and from seven of the universities of Great Britain. Harvard University raised through a committee of twenty about $600 to assist in defraying the cost of the entertainment...