Word: boye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city of Tourcoing, near Lille, there will be produced during next October an oratorio written by a boy of eleven. The announcement adds that the piece, which is called The Childhood of Saint John the Baptist, was begun by the little composer when he was no more than ten. The boy is named Rota Rinaldi. He is now studying at the conservatory at Milan. His mother, it is said, has taken alarm at his too early concentration upon music, and has decided to remove him from his advanced musical studies and send him to an ordinary high school...
...still told among musicians how some years ago there appeared in Russia a boy orchestra conductor, son of Italian parents who were singers in a traveling opera troupe. The lad was nine years old and a genius. The ablest musicians of Russia gathered to applaud the splendor of his interpretations. He went on tour through Russia and appeared before huge audiences. Musicians warned the parents not to play him to ruin, that the prodigy should be taken away from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated...
...public remains interested. A phenomenal child can draw attention to subjects most neglected by the populace. There is the game of chess. It is impossible to draw any public interest in chess ordinarily. But when the infant prodigy appeared, little Sammie Reschewsky, the newspapers ran columns about him. This boy, too, is a case to be studied with an eye to the over-pushing of precocious tots. It was reported that in Germany, before he came to America, rich people had offered his parents a financial guarantee provided they would take him away from much hard chess playing...
...Rockefeller, Jr., was captured by the Chinese bandits she managed to hide her jewelry (valued at $50,000) in the ground. When released and returned to Peking, she drew from memory a rough map of the place. A search was organized and the jewels were finally discovered by " Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Company. He received "an extremely substantial reward...
...college press could do much, if beside giving college news at it primarily should, it furnished students with intelligent summaries of what is going on; did something to take the "boy" out of their minds, impressing them with the responsibilities of knowledge and of the life ahead of them. The college is maintained at great cost for the intellectual benefit of our land. The period spent there ought not to be regarded as a sporting event with a little of the classics sandwiched in between like a lettuce sandwich. Above all they should get less college "life" in their heads...