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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of the play concerns Millicent Clare and Raymond Mounchensey, two childhood lovers. Because of a reversal in the fortunes of Mounchensey, Sir Arthur Clare, Millicent's father, forbids the wedding, and decides upon a match with Frank Jeringham, who is Raymond's close friend. In order to make Millicent forget her love for Mounchensey, she is sent to spend a year in a convent, after which her marriage with Jeringham is to take place...
Jeringham, however, is a much better friend than lover, and aids Mounchensey in his plans to steal Millicent away. The Merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest, and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage close the amusing episode. The devil is the controlling force throughout the play, though he hardly comes into contact with the characters...
...devoted to practice in reading. But whether through a special course, by an entrance requirement, or through English A, some facility in reading should be demanded of every student before graduation. No man can be called well educated who is incapable of reading aloud for the pleasure of a friend...
...masterly interpretations of pianoforte literature, his broad scholarship and his inspiring teaching. Among his famous pupils there have been many Harvard men. His ancestors for generations have been conspicuous in the musical life of Germany. His grandfather,--Heinrich Baermann, was a famous clarinet player and an intimate friend of Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and von Weber. The father of Carl Baermann inherited the musical talent of Heinrich, and was also a widely known composer of clarinet music...
...America, his permanent home being in Boston. He has been a life-long student of the works of Beethoven, and his influence both in the performance and in the concert teaching of Beethoven's great masterpieces has been of the highest artistic and educational significance. He was an intimate friend of the late Professor John Knowles Paine h.'69, the founder of the Department of Music, and has always shown a keen interest in the growth of artistic ideals at Harvard whether shown in the modern languages or in music. It is to be hoped that his generous manifestation...