Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature has sometimes seemed to nap, and the offerings to the editors have not seemed bursting with the promise of a new epoch of letters in America...
...Congress when in session at New York had representatives of twenty nationalities sent by various governments and archaeological institutions. The object of the delegates is the study of the American ethnological conditions of the fifteenth century and also of the pre-Columbian epoch...
...Murray of London, and a drawing after Michael Angelo by Brenourry has been received from Professor C. E. Norton. The Department of Fine Arts has acquired and deposited in the Museum a lead pencil and wash drawing of Chamouni by John Ruskin--a work of the "Modern Painters" epoch, which was Ruskin's strongest time as a draughtsman. Eight hundred and fifty-eight photographs have been purchased during the year, comprising representations of Indian, Greek, and Egyptian sculpture, French and Flemish painting, architecture of France, Spain, the Netherlands and modern England and other subjects. Several additions have also been made...
...College magazines. The issue contains one poem that might well have been left in the hands of one of the other two periodicals that deal with such. Other articles are "Holworthy Hall," "Harvard Life One Hundred Years Ago," "A Morning in the Law School," "Harvard in the Third Glacial Epoch," and "Radcliffe College...
...human interest, and it makes an instant appeal to the enthusiasm and emotion of the hearer. All musicians who have made a study of "Azara" are convinced of its great originality, its striking harmonies and melodies, masterly orchestration, dramatic power and picturesque scenic features. "Azara" marks a new epoch in American music, and it will be a shame if this opera is not first brought out on the stage in the land that produced it. One would think that Americans would show some pride in having "Azara" performed first in America, and would thus encourage the development of a native...