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From his boyhood, Mr. Chaillu said, he had been fond of animals, and had then learned how to preserve them. He was eager to go into the wildest parts of the world, and when seventeen, set sail for Africa...
...Blashfield, of New York, commences tonight, in Boylstyn 7, a series of lectures on the decorative painting of the Renaissance and its lesson for the present time. There will be five lectures in all, three of them coming on successive evenings of this week. Students who are especially fond of the fine arts will find here a chance to spend a delightful evening in company with a man who is a recognized authority on the subjects which he treats. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings the calendar does not offer so many events and more men will feel at liberty...
...college yard. We have come to look upon these trees as a part of our possessions, whether rightly or wrongly. This removal not only will reduce that portion of the yard to a bare and dreary spectacle, but it will also sacrifice a sentiment which every one who is fond of his college associations must be loath to lose. Will not the proper college authorities take a stand against such action...
Tschaikowsky's magnificent fifth Symphony brought to a close the finest concert, perhaps, of the season. His compositions bear more or less of the Slavonic temperament - "fiery exaltation on a basis of languid melancholy." He is fond of fantastic and melodic tunes, bold modulations and striking effects; and his fifth symphony is perhaps his most characteristic. The orchestration is very rich, the various instruments playing alternately one time to give fantastic effects and again combining in grand harmonies. There is much restlessness throughout, even in the lovely Andante cantabile and the orchestra is kept at a high tension. The Symphony...
...live in plainly furnished rooms, in comparison to which the ordinary rooms in our dormitories would seem palatial. Every man rooms alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...