Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seems as if the composer had set himself a difficult problem to maintain the thread of continuity without the aid of a closer adherence to conventional form. In substance, however, this work is so interesting as to demand another hearing before attempting a more authoritative opinion. In the first movement of Mr. Clapp's quintet we feel at once the solidity and breadth of structure, although the treatment of the strings is occasionally at variance with traditional quintet style. The themes, striking in themselves, are well adapted to extended treatment, and the effect of this movement is one of strength...
...years Dr. Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire...
...socialist movement is only 35 years old, but it has already a membership of over ten million men and is spreading with incredible speed over the earth. Throughout Europe all the scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and just emerging from the social conditions of the middle ages. Modern capitalizing was developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished...
...Readers in Germany and America." He was a guest of the Commercial Club in the evening, delivering an address on "Psychology in Commerce and Industry." Professor Munsterberg spent last Monday in Toronto, and spoke before the Canadian Club of that city on "Right and Wrong in the Prohibition Movement." He delivered two addresses Tuesday before the students of Cornell University. In the morning he spoke to the students of the department of philosophy on "New Developments in the Psychological Laboratory," and in the afternoon addressed the members of the university on the subject "Psychology...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Greenback Movement, with Especial Reference to Iowa and Wisconsin." Mr. C. O. Ruggles. University...