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...instruction plays a considerable part in the development of musical ability. Taking Harvard, the pioneer in instruction of musical theory in America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music here. Of men still living he cities 19 composers, graduates of Harvard, who have a national...
...same meeting of the President and Fellows the following gifts were also received and gratefully accepted: an anonymous gift of $5,000 to establish the Lawrence Carteret Fenno Memorial Free Bed Fund in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital; a gift of $1,250 from Alfred T. White, h.'90, for immediate use in the department of Social Ethics; securities amounting to $28,000 from Mrs. J. K. Paine to establish the John Knowles Paine Fellowship in Music; twenty-four thousand dollars from the estate of Mrs. Caroline M. Barnard on account of her residuary bequest; from the estate...
...shall encounter only men of their own calibre. For, as in every institution of learning, the character of the teaching depends as much on the ability of those who learn as on the excellence of those who teach. The second aim, made far more feasible by the growing McKay fund, is to accept as professors only men of real note. Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied science. It had the first professor of engineering. Today, beyond question, especially as exponents of the professional side of Applied Science, the staff is extraordinarily strong. The Engineering School...
...Quarter of the University Glee Club will give a concert at the Hotel Plaza, New York, N. Y., on April 15, at 3.30 o'clock. The receipts will go to the building fund of the Episcopal Chapel on wards Island. Tickets at $3.00 each may be obtained from K. Hadden '14, Dunster...
...anything in wearing this traditional academic costume but a pleasing novelty or a foolish tradition. But it is one of the significant customs which emphasizes the age of the College, like the sudden appreciation of the fact that Richelieu was still living when John Harvard gave his foundation fund for the school at "New-towne." Academic gowns originated in English law, for in the fourteenth century our ancestors in the universities at Oxford and Cambridge had apparently fully as varied, and as violent tastes, as the comic supplements assure us are the first characteristic of the modern college...