Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mendelssohn, Overture. Midsummernight's Dream...
...Overture to Midsummernight's Dream was played with remarkable delicacy and distinctness. The playing of the difficult motions by the strings was perfection itself and could only be accomplished by strings such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra possesses. The Concerto for pianoforte was performed by Mme. Anna Clark-Steiniger in rather a lifeless manner. The Concerto is thoroughly Mozart in character and rather tedious than interesting. Mme. Steiniger was very well received by the audience, and was given an encore. The Hungarian rhapsody, No. 2. of Liszt, was also well rendered, the weird character of the piece being carefully observed...
...reading of three portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body of broad minded men, and said that its presence was not lacking amongst us now. "These are the signs which shall mark the coming of the spirit...
...Rutgers, '82. The essay is essentially a plea for the classics based upon a comparison of the work done by students of the classics, and those who are so unfortunate as not to have studied Greek. Mr. H. E. Fraser, '86, presents some pleasing lines entitled, "Memory, a Dream." We are told that the soul of things is touched by human sorrow. Mr. N. S. Kenison, '86, tells in "A Vermont Experience" a laughable experience in a country store. A charming bit of verse from the French of Fontaney is the work of Mr. E. T. Parsons, Rochester...
...idea is an excellent one, and should receive more attention from our educators and legislators. If such a department were added to our universities, it would not only insure a better civil service, but it would make the "scholar in politics" a reality instead of a reformer's dream. Politics would become something more than systematic trickery and a struggle for the offices; and politicians would become less and statesmen more numerous." - Amherst Student...