Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...change in sentiment does not seem hard to explain. Declamation, except perhaps by a professional who has spent many years in training, is unreal and uninteresting. Declamations worth listening to can hardly be expected from a student who has few opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because...
...Westminster Abbey. Scott has probably given more wholesome pleasure to people who love reading than has any other writer of modern times. That he has not yet been given his place in the Abbey, which already contains memorials to Longfellow and to Lowell, is an accident hard to explain. The circumtances of the memorial now proposed are such that very small subscriptions are more to be desired than large ones. For the number of those who have cared for Scott is great; and of these very many will probably like to give a dollar or less toward this tardy...
...Conservatory of Music, will receive pupils at his residence, Suite 2, The Ellery, 1590 Cambridge street. Most recent developments of the Clavier Method thoroughly learned by attendance at the teachers' summer Normal School in N. Y. City this last summer. At home from 8 to 9 Monday evenings to explain the Clavier and the Method to those desiring to investigate it. Evening Sight-Singing Classes (Tonic Sol-fa method and staff combined) formed for male voices, including voice training by latest scientific method. What is known of the old Italian Method also employed...
...Boston Conservatory of Music, will receive pupils at his residence, Suite 2, The Ellery, 1590 Cambridge street. Most recent developments of the ClavierMethod thoroughly learned by attendance at the teachers' summer Normal School in N. Y. City this last summer. At home from 8 to 9 Monday evenings to explain the Clavier and the Method to those desiring to investigate it. Evening Sight-Singing Classes (Tonic Sol-fa method and staff combined) formed for male voices, including voice training by latest scientific method. What is known of the old Italian Method also employed...
...Boston Conservatory of Music, will receive pupils at his residence, Suite 2, The Ellery, 1590 Cambridge street. Most recent developments of the ClavierMethod thoroughly learned by attendance at the teachers' summer Normal School in N. Y. City this last summer. At home from 8 to 9 Monday evenings to explain the Clavier and the Method to those desiring to investigate it. Evening Sight-Singing Classes (Tonic Sol-fa method and staff combined) formed for male voices, including voice training by latest scientific method. What is known of the old Italian Method also employed...