Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Frederick Keffer Kelham of the class of eighty-eight, a young lawyer, was killed on the elevated railroad on Saturday. His body was picked up by the conductor of an uptown train in Fifty-third street, near the eighth avenue station, at 5.30 o'clock...
This evening at 7.45 the first of the series of ten symphony concerts is given in Sanders Theatre, with Mr. Emil Paur as conductor A limited number of admission tickets will be sold at the door. The programme...
...parts of the house showered her with crimson roses, one flung by every boy-Harvard's own colors, breathing in rose-breath Harvard's good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell? And why did the orchestra crash "Fair Harvard," and the conductor wave an appealing baton to absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night...
...gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit is joined and a shock is received. Rubber overshoes or gloves are seldom sufficient protection. Water is a very great conductor of electricity, and on a rainy day metal objects in the vicinity of heavily charged wires have often become charged themselves. This was well illustrated a year or two ago, when the iron railing around the grave yard at the corner of North avenue and Garden street became charged with...
Hans Richter has been appointed to succeed Mr. Nikisch as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...