Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work. According to present arrangements, the games will be inaugurated on Greek Independence Day, April 6, 1896, which is also Easter Monday. The Easter holidays will enable many to attend the festivities, which will of course cover several days. Thus far the co-operation of English, French, American, Belgian, Austrian, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish and Italian athletes has been promised; the Germans and Swiss, not having been represented at the Congress, have not yet announced their intentions, but will no doubt participate ultimately. American athletics were represented at the Paris Congress by Professor Sloane of Princeton, who also undertook to persuade...
...several seasons Mr. Eugene Ysaye has been a conspicuous figure in the music centres of Europe, where he is recognized as the successor of the great Wieniawski, with whom he studied and many of whose characteristics he possesses. The short career of this young Belgian violinist has been one of uninterrupted success, and his advent in this country has aroused an interest hardly equalled by that of any of the great artists who have visited America in the last decade...
...that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad" is a short poem by P. H. Savage. It is not especially good. A long and cleverly managed article is J. R. Oliver's study of Maurice Maetterlink, a young Belgian writer, The article is abundantly stocked with quotations and is good reading. The Book Review for the month is a criticism of Dr. Everett's new book, The Gospel of Paul...
...collection of contemporaneous art, numbering 100 paintings, a collection of 150 casts and marbles, representative of the various periods of Greek and Renaissance Art; a collection of old Dutch and Flemish paintings; a valuable collection of Chinesse porcelains nad bronzes, and a series of very fine and rare Belgian wood carvings of the 16th century...