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...hazing" is, after all, an exotic imported from the Parisian ateliers, where the students indulge in such ferocious tricks on new pupils that death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching...
...freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner selections previously given in the course. Labyrinthian in its construction, and delightfully startling in its cadences, it is instinct with the spirit of the dead master. Still it is impossible to get an adequate conception of Wagner's genius as a composer, by hearing simply a detached selection. On the whole, the concert, although hardly up to the standard of the last one, was one of the most enjoyable of the present course...
...limited number of favorite studies under the direction of a committee of the faculty, and after two years submits himself to a thorough examination, which, if passed, entitles him to a bachelor's degree; if very proficient, and upon presenting a meritorious thesis, the candidate attains at once the master's degree...
...BRADFORD,Secretary.The New York Times speaks of "Mr. George Riddle, the master of elocution at Harvard, the fine and scholarly impersonator of the Greek OEdipus, and the most delightful and versatile reader in New England today...
...medical man are given courses of chemistry, physiology and so on. Hence, to be completely equipped for your professional work you must repair to the teachers of those tributary departments of knowledge. The requirement, however, is not absolute; it admits of being evaded. Your professional teachers ought to master these outside subjects, and give you just so much of them as you need, and no more, which would be an obvious economy of your valuable time...