Word: director
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opening chorus was scarcely over when an excited personage in gray whiskers rushed in and informed the director that the performance could not go on, as the Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing in the adjoining room. After a short parley, a compromise was agreed upon by which the H. P. C. company deferred their rehearsal until Mr. Damrosch and his orchestra should have time to give more strict attention to the able directing of Mr. Daniels - who as Mr. Damrosch confidentially remarked, was the only man that he considered his superior as an orchestral director. As Mr. Damrosch begged so earnestly...
...Barnes Jr., '90, has been elected a director of the Harvard Shooting Club...
...School at Athens needs a fund of at least $100,000, to enable it to pay a proper salary to its director, to keep its library abreast of constantly advancing requirements, to meet other annual expenses, to take its due part occasionally in exploration and excavation, and to publish the results of its work. While the older French and German schools at Athens have been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than...
...with the means of building and furnishing a house; and we are now erecting a fitting home for the School, which will be ready for occupation next October. But we are still without provisions for the regular expenses of the School, especially for the salary of a permanent director. It was obvious from the beginning that our School could never aspire to the rank and importance which the French and German schools at Athens have long maintained, and could never undertake continuous and serious work, while its head was continually changing, and there was only temporary provision for even this...
Under the circumstances, and especially in view of the importance of securing Dr. Waldstein as the permanent director of the School, the trustees appeal confidently to all who value sound scholarship, and to all who feel pride in the national reputation which Americans have gained as promoters of learning, to give their aid, according to their means, in establishing the American School at Athens on a substantial and lasting foundation...