Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hundred and forty-eighth concert of the Apollo Club of Boston was given last evening in Sanders Theatre. For the past twenty-five years the Apollo Club has been giving concerts. Last night's concert was the second of the present season...
...same class as "Charley's Aunt" and "The Private Secretary," which are put together for laughing purposes only. With one exception the company is the same one that supported Mr. Wilson during his previous engagement at the Bijou Opera House. The part of Tilly Duval, of the Apollo Music Hall, loses none of its effectiveness in the hands of the new comer, Miss Fanchon Campbell. There are some excellent specialties in the last act and special mention may be accorded Master James Devlin, who proves himself a child artist of more than usual merit...
...wholly of college men. In viewing the concert critically this very point must be remembered that those who compose the clubs are amateur, very amateur musicians who have countless other things to do in college beside getting ready for a concert. To expect the Glee Club to rival the Apollo Club or to be disappointed because the Pierian does not come up to the standard of the Sanders Theatre concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is of course ridiculous. It ought always to be remembered that they are nothing but college clubs, and being college clubs should be judged...
...estate of the late Abraham Coles, L L.D., has presented Princeton College Library with an edition, de luxe, of his works, and also a handsomely framed carbon photograph of the Apollo Belvidere...
Professor Louis Dyer lectured last night under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, on "Greek Religion and Apollo." The lecturer said in brief that by the aid of excavations we are approaching a just appreciation of the Greek religion,-a religion which has supplied later religions with almost as much as the religion of Israel has. While Israel has given Christianity the idea of an all powerful and omniscient god-head, the Greek religion has contributed divine love, grace and purity. Mercy is the predominating quality of all Greek gods and goddesses, of Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter...