Word: famously
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This morning in Harvard 1, at 12 o'clock, Professor Dorpfeld will discuss the situation of Enneacrunus, the famous fountain of Athens which Thucydides tells us, in the fifteenth chapter of the second book of his History, was beautified and adorned by the tyrant Pisistratus. His interpretation of this famous passage will give members of the University a capital opportunity to observe his method...
Professor Dorpfeld's interpretation of this celebrated passage will have an intrinsic interest, as the statement by a learned man of the grounds of his opinion on an important question; but many who hear him will feel even a greater interest in observing his method, which has become famous. I venture, therefore, to call the attention of students, especially of those students who are engaged in investigation in any department of the University, to the appointment which Professor Dorpfeld has kindly consented to make...
Among the special soloists who have been engaged to assist at the concerts are Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. Carl Halir, the famous violin virtuoso from Berlin, Miss Lena Little, Mme. Georgine von Januschowsky, soprano of the Imperial Opera Company, Vienna, and last year with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, Mr. Martinus Sieveking and Mr. Franz Kneisel, first-violin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Museum was the Acropolis of Athens. A beautiful picture of the Acropolis was thrown on the screen before the lecture began, which transported the audience in imagination to Athens, and brought before their eyes the celebrated citadel of Pallas Athena. Professor Dorpfeld, in his opening words, designated this famous spot as the place where still we get the truest conception of the surpassing beauty of Greek art. Other pictures of the Acropolis were shown, with explanatory comment on its monuments and history...
Francis James Child was born in Boston, Mass., February 1, 1825. He attended the Boston public schools and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. He graduated from Harvard in 1846 with the degree of Master of Arts, in a class containing some of Harvard's most famous graduates. Among his classmates were Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Professor George Martin Lane, Senator Hoar, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Mr. Fitzedward Hall and Professor Charles Short. While in college Professor Child was a distinguished Hasty Pudding man, and it was he and his companions who wrote the song of "The Lone Fishball...