Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Boston Electric Club have offered to do all in their power to help the new club which seems to enter upon its career with every prospect of success in the attainment of the objects for which it has been founded...
...Quartette takes place this evening in Sever 11. In all previous concerts by this organization here, Mr. Kneisel has met with flattering receptions and has succeeded in pleasing all classes equally well in the selection and rendering of his programs. There can be no better foundation for a musical career-and for those less interested in the art, no pleasanter way of spending an hour and a half-than in hearing these masterpieces of Beethoven, Mozart and other composers. The stringed quartette the highest and purest form of instrumental music. We venture once more to urge college...
Last evening, Mr. J. H. Ropes discussed the political and legal career of Sir Francis Bacon, with special reference to his relations with Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Buckingham and Burleigh. In the course of his remarks he read largely from Spedding; the different biographies of Bacon as a politician and judicial official were also carefully compared. The subject proved a fruitful one for investigation, and the club did not adjourn until a late hour...
...last prose article, "Partisanship or Independence in Politics-a Choice," is contributed by Mr. H. H. Darling. It takes the opposite ground from Mr. M. Storey's "Politics as a duty and as Career," in advocating party organization rather than personal independence. The writer divides independent voters into five classes, and after showing that the first three are objectionable on moral grounds, claims that the experience of the last few years has proved the inexpediency of the others. While the influence of the last two classes appears to be underrated, the argument for the formation of political parties is strong...
...exceedingly clever and witty in conversation, and entertaining in a high degree; he wrote verse with charming grace, and had a particularly delicate skill in the turning of fine prose sketches. He could hardly have failed in a literary career, had he lived...