Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps one of the finest tributes that could be paid to Harvard men was that spoken on last Saturday evening by President Lowell. It was at the meeting of the Harvard Club of Boston to interest University men in the proposed Naval Training Cruise of this summer. The way to get undergraduates interested in the cruise, the President said, is not to tell them the easy life that they will have for the four weeks; but rather to tell them the difficulties that they will encounter, and the great gains that they will obtain from such a trip. Such...
...least posed for Mr. Parson's "Scott." There is a reality about Mr. Kirby's "Sonnet" which is lacking in Mr. Sanger's "To --?". The "Winter Symphony" of Mr. Norris is another good work, and Mr. Benshimol is deadly serious with his "Cry and Echo." But perhaps the finest piece of verse in the number, and a poem of genuine merit, is Mr. Rogers' "Victory." The new board has very praiseworthy intentions, and it is on the way toward success...
This work has been done in four ways. First, in his Freshman choral societies he has brought about a knowledge and appreciation of good music by the actual singing of it. Again, in his work with the University Glee Club he has made the organization unquestionably the finest in the country, both in the quality of its work, and in the standard of its repertory. He has always been the advocate of competitive singing, and was a deciding factor in the establishment of the Intercollegiate Glee Club Meets. He has supervised the production of a number of undergraduate performances with...
...unusual collection of English war posters has been placed in the art cases in the periodical room of the Union. They are the work of Frank Brangwyn, one of the most celebrated of modern English artists, and are considered abroad as the finest art posters brought out by the war. "If the war has done nothing else," declares one Paris newspaper, "it has revealed in the English Brangwyn a new Rembrandt...
...many of the world's great singers will appear besides the added attraction of Mile. Pavlowa and her unparalleled Ballet Russe. The Boston Grand Opera Company has arranged for the presentation of the most modern and elaborate scenic effects and the orchestra is to be one of the finest that has ever appeared with the company...