Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mr. Sessions, a former president of the "Musical Review," continues his detailed discussion of the works of Richard Strauss. If no strikingly novel criticism is to be found therein, there are many facts relating to the genesis of Strauss more important works, their technical and esthetic character which are presented...
A member of the United States cabinet stated recently that, in his opinion, Harvard alone, of all the American colleges, could lay true claim to the title of university. No doubt excellent grounds for such an assertion are to be found in the wide scope of the University's curriculum...
I might say, too, that military training is the other half of all education of character. Training of the will must begin with control of the body. Moral training must have at least two sides: theoretical instruction in ethical principles, and the actual development of habits. Greek education made the...
Our democracy is in crying need of leaders; and no one is fit to command who has not had his preliminary discipline in obedience and co-operation. It is said that obedience weakens the character; but that is true only if it is blind and unwilling. Look at Switzerland. It...
The title role is one of extraordinary difficulty, for it is almost as hard to find a prima donna whose character lends itself to this part as to find a young man who can act Hamlet. Mme. Gay, however, made up for what freshness, color and tone she may lack...