Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...music department has contributed in no small degree to the renown of Harvard. Many of us can remember what a stir Professor Paine's CEdipus music made at the time of the Greek play-it ranks among the very best of recent music; and his last symphony has a European reputation. The estimation in which he is held by the best critics is indicated by the following remarks from the Nation of December 4, apropos of another recent work of his, the "Tempest." a symphonic poem, performed by Thomas's Brooklyn orchestra, recently...
...works. It not only gives evidence of the scholarship to be expected of a Harvard professor, but of originality of invention and rarefelicity in modulation and instrumentation, especially in the second movement, which with its broad flowing melody and really exquisite orchestral coloring, is a thing that any contemporary European composer might be proud...
...trustees of Cornell have recently purchased the Ward collection of European fossils...
...favorable report of the committee on the American School at Athens, a summary of which we give in another column, will be received with pleasure, not only by the friends of the classies but by everyone who wishes to see America occupying an equal position with European countries in archaeological pursuits and discoveries. "The object," we are told, "of the American School of Classical Studies is to furnish to graduates of American colleges without charge for tuition, an opportunity to study classical literature, art, and antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance; to prosecute and to aid original research in these...
...work of Professor Young of Princeton on the sun has been translated into four European languages-French, German, Russian and Italian. In England 8,000 copies of it have been sold...