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...early days of service that we are to hear tonight in the Union, of the days and months when still a young man, he experienced the tedium of the camp, the fatigue of the march, and the danger of the battlefield. It should provide a splendid occasion to gain an insight into the character and ideals of the man, who has survived the War these forty years a model of devotion to his country and his College, while he reminisces about the days...
...Hotchkiss School, delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The Battle of Gettysburg" before a large audience. The stereopticon views illustrating the lecture consisted of charts showing the positions of the divisions of each army before the battle and during its various stages; pictures of the battlefield as it appears at the present day and of the monuments erected to the soldiers; and many contemporary paintings, photographs and wood-cuts portraying the struggle...
...Arthur K. Peck. Mr. Peck is a traveller of note in both Europe and America and has made a desirable reputation as a lecturer on places of interest in the western parts of the United States. This evening he will describe a visit to Custer's battlefield, the Sioux and Crow Indian reservations, horse-back trips with the cow-boys, explorations in the Bad Lands, digging fossil remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures unusual in accounts of travel in the Indian country. Among the interesting events he will mention are a journey into the wilderness with the discoverer...
...Hudson as far as West Point, is an outgrowth of the series of historical excursions which were a unique feature of the University Extension summer meeting, held in Philadelphia last July, under the auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. Independence Hall, the battlefield of the Brandywine, Germantown and Valley Forge were visited and historic addresses delivered...
Beethoven's Overture "Coriolanus." which opened the eighth Symphony Concert last night in Saunders Theatre, has been identified by Wagner with the scene "between Coriolanus, his mother and his wife on the battlefield before the gates of his native city, when the chieftain yielded to femine entreaties, refused to assault the place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great...