Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Friday evening the Apollo Club performed a comic oratorio, composed by Professor Paine, entitled, "Radway's Ready Relief." It was written in 1863, under a pseudonym for the Apollo Club, but no one could discover the composer. It was performed several times with great success. Nothing was heard of it for years, until it was discovered Professor Paine had composed it. Being asked by the club to produce it once again, he consented, after revising it. It is both witty and charming. It recounts the sad misfortunes of a man overtaken by asthma or some kindred disease, and the ready...
...periodicals in addition to the publications of all the leading colleges in the country. In addition to the papers mentioned in the secretary's announcement of Thursday, there have been added during the past week the Philadelphia Press, Worcester Evening Gazette, Roxbury Advocate, New York Weekly Witness, The Apollo, Womans' Journal, New York Truth, New Haven Union, Bicycling World, Index and Unity. The London papers are not yet on file, but will be ready next week...
...look of melancholy abstraction. It is said to be the second cast ever made, the first having been secured by the South Kensington. Dr. W. S. Bigelow of Boston has given the museum another plaster cast from Michael Angelo - a "Madonna and Child," at Bruges. Casts from the Apollo, Centaurs and women figures discovered at Olympia by the German expedition in 1879 have been added to the fine series already in place. They are supposed to have adorned the western pediment of the Temple of Jupiter...
...indicates again the reaction that was going on during the early portion of this century against the frigid classicism of the preceding century. He says: "We seldom style the moon Diana, even in our verses; have dispensed with the society of Cupid; and never think of asking inspiration from Apollo or the Muses...
...such a weariness, that many, even of the undergraduates who care for literature, seldom go. I never, I am ashamed to say, availed myself of the opportunity of listening to Mr. Arnold, because his lectures were delivered in the afternoon, when cricket or the river seemed more attractive than Apollo's lute...