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...four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the 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...
...time is not far distant, President Warren thinks, when women equally with men will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless, or in its more strenuous forms merely pedantic, compared with that new and higher type which the native enthusiasm and conscientiousness and insight and teaching gifts of trained women are certain to bring about in the near future...
...young ladies no doubt thousands of the sex will endeavor to attain a title just to see how they would look in the robes. This will make education fashionable, but will the women be contented to wear the same gown day after day without a change of style? - [Star...
...Washington, has written his name with a firmness of hand and an amount of ink that insures it preservation "till the coming of time." With the same plainness of writing is the name of a now famous Western lawyer, J. Young Scammon, Chicago, III. Not so bold in style, but with an antique scholarship, a certain Joannes Ignatius ventured upon some Latin which begins thus: "Kalendus Julus anni MDCCCXLIII., hac finis in Bostoniensi academia...
...luxuries of club life are rapidly extending to the Western universities. The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at the University of Michigan are about to erect a new chapter house. The building will be constructed of rough cut stone, of the early English style of architecture. It will be built in a spacious and thoroughly convenient style, and will present a highly artistic appearance. In height it will be three stories besides the basement, the latter having a dining-hall, kitchen, storerooms and boiler room. The first floor is to have a central hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron...