Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless gesticulation. Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work of art in that line, was made most ludicrous by the gigantic proportions assumed by his body in ballet costume. The low stage, and the level floor of the hall, however, prevented many from seeing the expert dancing. The audience from the very beginning caught the spirit of the performance, and looked upon...
...notice from McKemp P. Battle, of the University of North Carolina, is posted in University. This notice, after stating that professors in English Language and Literature, Theory and Art of Teaching (Pedagogics), Agricultural Chemistry and Mining, and assistant professors in Economic Geology, Botany, Entomology, Physics and Engineering, are desired, requests all applicants to send their names and credentials before June 1. Here is a grand chance for young aspirants...
Prof. Paine last evening traced the development of musical art under the influence of Handel and Bach. These two great composers gave a great impetus to the progress of music, and were among the earliest to develop the truly Tentonic school. The fortunes of the two men were widely different, though both were of the highest genius and contemporaries. Handel won immediate recognition, and lived in London, winning the highest honor and respect from the English people, while Bach remained in his obscure German home, but little known outside of it, and soon forgotten even there. Handel's memory...
...notice from McKemp P. Battle, of the University of North Carolina, is posted in University. This notice, after stating that professors in English Language and Literature, Theory and Art of Teaching (Pedagogics), Agricultural Chemistry and Mining, and assistant professors in Economic Geology, Botany, Eutomology, Physics and Engineering, are desired, requests all applicants to send their names and credentials before June 1. Here is a grand chance for young aspirants...
...machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke, making a boat-load of men act in as perfect union as a machine, has revolutionized the art of rowing, and has placed it in the best of the sciences...