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...Concerts was given last night in Sanders Theatre before the usual large audience. Mme. Helen Hopekirk, who appeared in Walker Hall, Amherst, two days ago, for the first time this season in America, was the soloist. The programme was a varied one, including a Suite by MacDowell, representing the modern school and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony composed in the early part of this century, and Rubinstein's Concerto for Pianoforte in G major. The work of Mme. Hopekirk was very favorably received; her wonderful accuracy and precision in the most intricate parts of the Concerto showed plainly her mastery...
Professor N. S. Shaler is to deliver the seventh course of Winkley lectures at the Andover Theological Seminary, beginning Dec. 3. Subject, Modern Science and Religious Beliefs...
...Modern science is far advanced and, indeed, it has been studied by some men for its own sake, and Romanticism, which was once so flourishing, gradually died out. Men came to realize more and more a truth which Butler signalized by saying that things are what they are; things will be what they will be and that it is folly to be deceived into thinking otherwise. But as Romanticism disappeared, a new power was rising and it was ready when the former was gone, to fill its place. This new star was science. Men devoted their lives...
...intellectual world is the wish of broad-minded men of the present day. As organic development has been achieved in the exact sciences so are its beneficial effects needed in the less tangible divisions. An organism of culture, in other words is, or should be, the goal of modern advances in all branches of knowledge. In seeking the best methods for reaching such an end, we instinctively look at the past, in order to profit by its errors and success. And we find, at last, that the middle ages were truly times of origin, since they give us the virtual...
...Christmas Atlantic is replete with good things. Among other excellent articles, one that will be sure to interest Harvard men is one on "The Modern Art of Painting in France" by Professor Charles H. Moore, the Assistant Professor in Fine Arts. Mr. Moore thinks that the modern school with all its merits, has failed thus far to fulfill the promise of the earlier ages, that the springs of inspiration are exhausted because the light of the spirit no longer guides the imagination in its conseptions of forms of beauty, and that the qualities of the modern school are not those...