Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford, lectured on "Notoriety in Art" last evening, before a large and appreciative audience in Sever 11. Popularity, the speaker said, comes to work of a commonplace character too often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The...
We should like to call attention to a communication on another page, in which the writer points to the need of establishing a school of Political Science at Washington. The matter is interesting not only to those who for themselves wish to get a practical knowledge of political and economic...
It is a privilege not often vouchsafed a Cambridge audience to hear such a soloist as Mr. Joseffy, and it is a double honor to have him here before he appears in Boston. His selection was Beethoven's fourth concerto, in G major. Of Mr. Jeseffy's technique, of his...
The serenade has the simplicity and childlike naivete of character which is so peculiarly Mozartian. It is scored for small orchestra, without clarinets and in some movements without flutes, yet with these simple means some very charming effects are produced. One notable instance occurs in the andante, where the horn...
That courses are unequal merely because of men's difference in adaptability is a somewhat new theory. For though great varieties of ability exist among the students here, it can hardly be denied that some courses, from the very character of what is taught, from the quantity of work required...