Word: european
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...example of all that is best in the French school of light opera is sure to give satisfaction to patrons of the Castle Square Company. "Fra Diavole" has held the musical public's both sides the Atlantic throughout the present generation, and it enjoyed the greatest popularity upon the European stage for more than a quarter of a century before it was heard in this country. Its music shows that remarkable fertility of Auber's melodic invention and his genius in chorus writing is at all times prominently exhibited in its numbers. The story is full of interest with ample...
...promised by private citizens as soon as the State gave $500,000. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst is the principal donor to the fund. She offers to give money to obtain plans by international competition and to pay Professor B. R. Maybeck, who will explain the project to eastern and European architects. Mrs. Hearst, in her letter, said it was her desire to do something as a memorial to Senator Hearst's love for the State. It is understood that she will cause to be erected two buildings as a part of any plan accepted. One will be a direct memorial...
...greater supply of money. (r) To pay our debt of $6,000,000,000 to England. (s) To pay our immense farm mortgages. (b) The supply would remain almost the same. (x) But little of the 4,000,000,000 of silver in world would come here. (m) European silver (1,300,000,000) would not come. (z) Their coinage ratio being only 15 1-2 to 1. (n) The scanty currency of Mexico and Central America (97,000,000,000) would not be depleted for our sake. (z) They would suffer more than they could possibly gain by sending...
...foolish for such men to express their opinions? Why are we "supposedly unpolitical Harvard men"? Does the Advocate claim that centres of learning such as this University should not exert influence in public life? Does not the writer know the effect which universities have had in the development of European history, every one from Oxford to Salamanca? Does he not know that popular government is sinking under such corruption as is exhibited in the municipalities of this country because universities, and what they stand for, do not exert the influence they should...
...Sumner prize, competition for which is open to all members of the University, has been awarded to William Henry Gorrill, of Oakland, California, a student in the Graduate School, for an essay entitled "The European Concert and the Problem of Universal Peace...