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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Herr Frese's two classes in vocal music, one of Radcliffe and the other of Harvard students, united yesterday afternoon in the study of choruses from Sullivan's opera, "The Pirates of Penzance." The combined class is ultimately expected to contain forty Radcliffe students. With the new voices for the higher parts, the work will be much more effective and the results promise to be very satisfactory...
...March number of Godey's Magazine will contain an interesting critical article by Rupert Hughes on the musical compositions of Professor James Knowles Paine...
...kept at a depth of about seven feet. It is lined with white tile and fitted up with spring boards, trapezes, rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with the tank-rooms contain more than five hundred lockers with the necessary shower baths adjoining. An assessment is levied on all the students to defray the running expenses...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...Meriden, Conn, by Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth. 3. A course in advanced field work, in field research and professional methods, by Professors Shaler and Wolff. The course will cover parts of New England, Southeastern New York, Southern Virginia and Northern New Jersey. A thesis will contain the result of the work done by each student...