Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Review tells us. "A Note on Stravinsky", by E. B. Hill '94, gives a brief outline of the works of the Russian who seems to be again pushing music beyond the limits of reason or rapture. Though as yet practically unknown in America, his works are receiving wide attention abroad. The "Sacre de Printemps," a futuristic ballet, was recently declared by the gifted Florent Schmitt to be one of an immortal trio--the two others being "Tristan" and "Pelleas...
...Damon's article makes a searching examination into the various requirements which have to be adjusted in this most composite of arts, and his suggestions certainly have the spontaneous enthusiasm of youth. One point, however, is somewhat wide of the mark. The statement that "cities of any size abroad are able to support a company throughout the winter, whereas Boston cannot do this for eighteen weeks" merely records the chief practical difference between foreign management and our own. Every one of the leading opera houses of Germany and France is subsidized by the Government; i.e., even in long-established centres...
...welded together, and if the consequent result could be brought clearly before the nation's eyes, Dr. Fitch feels that Harvard will have gone far toward setting a firm claim on the title of "the national university." At present, it is the duty of every undergraduate to help create abroad the impression that Harvard is the home of true college democracy, where every man with character, brains and resolution can, regardless of money, family, and social position, stand on his own feet and attain a high place in undergraduate life...
...Edwards found it necessary to return and explain the enterprise here, Dr. Henry S. Houghton, of Johns Hopkins, was made dean in his place. Harvard is represented by four men, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Oregon, California, Dublin, and Copenhagen, one each. As many more institutions of learning, here and abroad, are represented on the local advisory board, which is composed of Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The purposes of the institution are: (1) To teach modern medicine and surgery to Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinese Government in inaugurating a greatly needed hygienic reform; (3) to study particularly...
...additional advantages are many. In the first place the student who takes such a position is doing a real service, not only to the foreigners but also to the American missions and institutions abroad. He is given the opportunity to see at first hand, and to understand the work Americans are doing in the Orient. In view of the rapid advancement and growth of the East, it is a rare chance to study closely the economic and political conditions of Japan and China, as well as of our own possessions. There is an additional attraction offered to medical students...