Word: deservedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toscanini is at last putting on at La Scala of Milan Boito Nerone- that opera by the interesting composer of Mefistofele who was at the same time one of the most distinguished poets of Italy and the literary collaborator with Verdi in Otello and Falstaff. For the leading soprano role...
The Significance. The theoretical man in the street will find the Outline an easy and informative introduction to the best that has been written in every language. It will not educate the uneducated nor furnish, in itself, a royal road to learning, but within its scope it is valuable and...
It is clear that the advantages, aside from the honor, are worth working for, and are not an impossibility for many men who now maintain a C average without difficulty. The list is a deserved reward for the student who has ambition enough to aim above the mere passing mark...
It is true enough that scholarship is its own reward; yet these honor degrees are an incentive to better work, and not only a deserved satisfaction to those who win them but sometimes a practical advantage as well. It is probably futile to suggest that the British system of "Pass...
A few translators?we are speaking of those who make translation their main occupation, not of such occasional translators as Shelley, say, or Scott?have attained a genuine celebrity upon translation alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual...