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...transformation the ideas of that culture must undergo in assimilation by minds of a different civilization and nationality whose traditions and habits are absolutely foreign. Under his new system the certain dignity in books, the certain Latin habit of mind brought to their composition would be more than ever lost...
...Boston and Cambridge with such brilliant success. It may not be generally recognized that during the last few years a work has been created here in our midst which makes a permanent contribution to the modern opera. In fact "Azara" is the first grand opera on an original subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American. For Professor Paine has written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original...
...deal in a niggardly fashion with the steward, but it is to be regretted that the auditor makes no mention of any plan like that at Memorial by which the steward's remuneration is in part dependent on the lowness of the prices. Have the board of directors ever considered it? It would be interesting to know if in comparing the steward's salary with that of the Memorial steward's any account has been taken of the great privilege enjoyed by the former of running a restaurant with high prices throughout the Summer School. Furthermore, the steward and board...
...through the vigilance of the steward and the Board of Directors the expenses have been reduced, since the beginning of the year, one hundred and fifty dollars per week; that in spite of a greatly increased membership there have been fewer complaints of food in the complaint box than ever before; that no prices on the present bill of fare are higher than the prices in previous years, except cereals which cost one cent more...
...fifth lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language...