Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Beta Kappa oration at Commencement will be delivered by Governor Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, and the poem by Rev. Henry Van Dyke h.'94, Professor of English of Princeton University. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre June 30, 1909, the day after Commencement...
...College Library has received a very valuable and interesting early portrait of Chaucer, painted in oil on an oak panel, by bequest of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton. The inscription on its back states that this picture was presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented...
...Doors in the Holy Land," by Henry Van Dyke h.'94; "Cap'n Eri," by Joseph C. Lincoln; "Partners of the Tide," by Joseph C. Lincoln; "Drama and Life," by A. B. Walkley; "The Appreciation of the Drama," by Charles H. Caffin; "Renaissance of the English Drama," by Henry Arthur Jones; "Shamrock Land," by Plummer F. Jones; "Charles Dickens," by Frederic G. Kitton; "A History of Spanish Literature," by James Fitz-Maurice Kelly; "The Spanish People," by Martin A. S. Hume; "The Rise of the Greek Epic," by Gilbert Murray; "The American College," by Abraham Flexner; "Justice and Liberty...
Miss Emily W. Robinson of Malden will read Dr. Henry van Dyke's story; "The Lost Word." in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. After the reading N. R. Cole '09 will play the following selections on the pianoforte...
...Music Lover" Henry Van Dyke describes with his usual felicity of style the tranquilizing and uplifting effect made upon a toil-worn man of the world by a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor. Subjective interpretations of musical masterpieces are fraught with danger, as the same music may mean one thing to one hearer and something else to another. But Mr. Van Dyke has shown discretion in selecting for his possibly too rhapsodic treatment a work of Beethoven which is intensely subjective and even, as far as absolute music can be, definitely autobiographic. It is well known...