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...Music, will be given in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. Assistant Professor W. R. Spalding '87 will speak on the life and works of the successors of Von Weber in the German Romantic School,--Marschner, Lortzing, Nicolai,--and three significant French operatic composers of the middle nineteenth century,--Berlioz, Gounod, and Thomas. The musical program will be presented by seven artists from the Boston Opera Company...
...operatic concerts under the auspices of the Boston Opera Company and the Department of Music in Harvard University will be given in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. E. B. Hill will speak on the life and works of certain French composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the musical program will be presented by the following artists: Mlle. Madeline d'Olige, soprano; Mme. Florence de Courcy, contralto; Mr. Fernand De Potter, tenor; Mr. Jean Riddez, baritone; Mr. Gaston Barreau, baritone...
...series of historic operatic concerts under the auspices of the Boston Opera Company and the Department of Music, will be given in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. E. B. Hill will speak on the life and works of certain French composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the musical program will be presented by the following artists: Mile, Madeline d'Olige, soprano; Mme. Florence de Courcy, contralto; Mr. Fernand De Potter, tenor: Mr. Jean Riddez, baritone; Mr. Gaston Barrean, baritone...
Years ago when Fast Day was a legal holiday in Massachusetts, the University held its spring recess at that time. When Fast Day was dropped from the list of regularly observed holidays, Harvard selected the week of April nineteenth for the recess. It was then thought to be most advantageous to have the vacation at a fixed rather than a varying period of the year. To us, today, however, there seem other more important considerations than absolute regularity, which should bear on the choice of the time for the vacation. Those students who live in Boston or Cambridge or nearby...
...opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who go to homes outside Massachusetts for the week of April nineteenth find that their Yale and Princeton friends and those who are at other institutions have had their good times and are now back at work. The festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them at work. Then when all the real opportunities for a thoroughly...