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...Conservatory orchestra and chorus, but also into its courses in 'ensemble' playing, choir training, and liturgical music. Those courses include historical and theoretical work as well as practical application. For regular attendance at any of the Conservatory courses, the University will allow credit toward the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts...
President Eliot spoke last, on the need in America for the artistic expression of the best music. Dr. Muck is a fine example of the German master of a single subject, a kind of scholarship that we of America need in all our work...
...stand with relation to the intellectual supply of the world, and on which side is the balance of trade in brains, in favor of Europe or America? Where does the student go who wishes to be a master in physics, in zoology, in psychology, or any other field of learning? Not to any University in America. The greatest scholars of the world today are found in German, France, and England, not in America. Of the 43 men of the whole world who are pre-eminent in the 20 major branches of learning, we name only three who are Americans: Professor...
...retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this was the inevitable result of long preoccupation in official affairs. It is greatly to be desired that the author of "The Virginian" might give us a portrayal of the characters of Franklin and Lincoln as true to life...
...Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...