Word: production
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last week, Dr. Lewis G. Janes, the director of the conferences, read a valuable paper on an interesting but little known pioneer and philosopher of the Colonial era, Samuel Gorton, the first settler of Warwick, R. I. The paper was largely the product of original research in unpublished manuscripts. The remaining lectures on Wednesdays during February will be given as follows...
...clear then that the flower exercises are an old and unbroken tradition, and that they have existed in their present form for upwards of thirty years. To substitute artificial ceremonies for the living custom-the scramble for the flowers, is hardly a reasonable proposition. A tradition is the slow product of time and tendencies, and is only susceptible of very gradual change or modification. Once rudely disturbed from without and its very essence is gone. Briefly, you can not take away the flowers and the scrimmage on Class Day without destroying the tradition. You may still have exercises there...
...Lammermoor." Donizetti's work is given with attention to detail and a general excellence that has never been attained in this city before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come on from New York to join the company. Mlle. Diard was received with remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm Monday night and is established...
...poem is somewhat cosmical in character, and probably dates from extreme antiquity. In several parts it suggests the Book of Genesis. It is, so far as known, the most remarkable product of Babylonian imagination...
...scenery around Boston is the product of a partnership of nature and man. There is little or no land near here left unchanged since the arrival of the first settlers...