Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cleveland's Consolidated Minstrels opened a week's engagement last evening at the Globe theatre. The house was filled and gave the company a warm reception. The entertainment was in every way good, the singing being fully up to the high standard of the company, while the Japanese juglers were even finer than usual...
...said: In that period between the dynastic conquest and popular revolt in Germany, the lives of both Goethe and Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years...
...Schiller died. His life was indeed romantic, filled with many struggles against adverse circumstances, and at a time when he had gained a high position among his people he was cut off by disease. Goethe lived a silent life for twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory...
...difficult to find teachers qualified in pedagogy. The difficulty of colleges and professional schools was in teaching young men how to practice. So in college or university, the way to advance the profession of teaching is to teach the subjects which are to be taught in the colleges and high schools and academies in the best manner we can. In Germany the teacher shows how the subject should be taught. In regard to the preparation of the teacher, he thought Harvard had done her fair share of the work during the last thirty years. The methods of teaching the principal...
...equatorial telescope of 12 inches aperture will be placed. The tower is covered by a revolving copper dome containing a wide slit which can be turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower. The building contains one large and two small rooms for a library and other uses, a photographic room, and apartments for clocks and minor instruments. The whole structure is substantially made of brick...