Word: giving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Definite plans have been formed for giving Boston an opera house with an established company which will give grand opera for at least three months of the year. The ground for the building, which will be erected near Symphony Hall, has been donated by Mr. Eben D. Jordan, who has also offered to defray the expense of building the hall if necessary. The matter is in the hands of a preliminary committee, which will soon be organized into a permanent body and will eventually be formed as the proprietary company of the house. The theatre will be built...
...Stefansson, formerly an assistant in the department of anthropology, will give an illustrated lecture on "Winter Life of the Eskimo" at the meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club, this evening at 8 o'clock at the University Club, 270 Beacon street, Boston...
...Deutsche Gesellschaft of Boston will give a reception this evening at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, for Professor Paul Clemen, German exchange professor this year, and Mrs. Clemen. During the early part of the evening Professor Clemen will give an illustrated lecture on "German Art of Today." The reception, which will follow the lecture, will be in the nature of a Christmas celebration, and German songs and chorals will be given by German singers...
...Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...
...weekly meeting of the St. Paul's Society this evening will take the form of a Christmas service. Rev. William H. Faulkner, rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston, will give a brief address. The meeting will close with a short business session, and the reading and discussion of reports. Mr. Faulkner was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883, and from the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, in 1894. After occupying posts in Baltimore and Philadelphia, he came to Boston, and has been rector of St. Paul's Church since...