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...Barnhelm" in Philadelphia, under the patronage of the University of Pennsylvania, suggested to members of the German Department of Harvard the desirability of putting before the University a classic German play. Mr. Heinrich Conried, proprietor and manager of the Irving Place Theatre in New York, has always shown the greatest interest in the maintenance on the stage of the older classic drama, and consequently an appeal was made to him. To this appeal he responded with the utmost readiness and generosity; and, through his enthusiasm for the drama of Germany and his sympathy in our University life, it has been...
...play chosen is Goethe's "Iphigenie auf Tauris," to be presented in Sanders Theatre on March 22. This play was selected because of the fitness in giving precedence to Germany's greatest poet, of the intrinsic beauty of the play, and of the fact that, for students of Greek or of Comparative Literature, the treatment by a modern dramatist of a theme that had been handled by Euripides offers much interest. Furthermore, the simplicity of the stage-setting and the small number of actors are well adapted to the limitations of Sanders Theatre. Mr. Conried's company is excellent...
...give the instrumental music, and a number of Norwegian folk songs and ballads will be sung by Miss Aagot Lunde, a Norwegian singer. A feature of the p ogramme will be the "Peer Gynt Suite," by Grieg, the accompaniment to the play of "Peer Gynt," one of Ibsen's greatest plays...
...thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot him. It was this marvelous speech that led to his being elected to the Board of Overseers when he came to Boston in 1870. He served on this board from 1870-1882, and again from 1883-1889. Among his greatest works while connected, with the University was the harboring of the "experiment" of voluntary religious worship. At first he had opposed this scheme, but he finally changed his view, and devoted himself to its success. He was among the first of the preachers at the chapel, where his power forced...
Phillips Brooks was, first of all, a preacher; and then a poet. If he had lived he might have been an administrator. One of his greatest powers was that of spontaneous prayer. With bowed head he would rapidly repeat some favorite passage; and then, throwing back his head, burst into thanksgiving, glowing and unbounded. His influence on undergraduates resulted from his diverse interests and his power to apply himself to little things. Not one of the officers of the University failed to feel the man's force and personality...