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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that students make a university, and that professors' chairs have been endowed for men whose work it is to instruct students. It is therefore highly unjust that instructors should...
...died at thirty-six years of age, and that this work was only op. 9. It is essentially poetical and even dramatic in the intensity of emotion, keenly imaginative and wrought out in orchestration that is worthy of Wagner or Berlioz. Indeed, its intensity is perhaps too great to express its motto...