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...spite of its youthful struggles, it was able to collect a strong faculty almost from the start. It was true that the can tankerous Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas...
Among these debates are contests with the University of Iowa, Dennison College, Wayne University, Central Ohio State College, and Gustavus Adolphus College...
...Verdi's libretto was inspired by the 1792 murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III at a masquerade in the Stockholm Opera House, but in 19th century Italy, a direct reference was impolitic. So Verdi and his librettist shifted the shenanigans to colonial Boston, disguised the King as Britain's colonial governor, "Riccardo, Earl of Warwick...
...existence of theatrical activity at Harvard is evident even before the regulation of 1762 and evinced by the very need for such a regulation. There are written records which show that in 1690 Gustavus Vasa, by Benjamin Colman '92, the first play written by an American, was performed at commencement. This must have had the blessing of the College, though probably not of the Commonwealth, since as early as 1665 there is record of amateurs being summoned to court for presenting a play...
...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...