Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is only one small picture by Troyen; but it is large enough to show that impressive solemn evening effect for which he is, among other things, much celebrated. Muncaksy, whose picture of "Christ before Pilate," has been so much heard of lately, has a small woodland scene particularly noticeable for its originality of execution. A real dark green Daubigny, much coveted by connoisseurs, attracts much attention. Hamon, lately deceased, better known in America by engravings of his works, is represented in an idyllic subject, called "L'Amour et les Deux Jeunes Filles aux Bains." Ziem and Frere, the painters...
...Strauss' "Merry War," the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna says: "The music is like the fire from a mitrailleuse; one melody succeeds another, and each one has its effect on the audience. The great charm of the music is that, although heard over and over again, it remains always fresh and fascinating. The airs are now common property, and are whistled, sung and hummed by everybody; street musicians and military bands play them, and at every ball one hears lancers, quadrilles and polkas taken bodily from the 'Merry War.'" The opera was brought out at the New York Thalia last...
...boarders are obtained Memorial would be closed, it seemed for a while as if a panic had seized upon those who up to this time have thrown their fortunes with the hall. One thought of the old proverb, that rats forsake a sinking vessel, when on all sides one heard the men express their determination to leave. To such we would give the advice of Horace Greely to the giddy youth about to marry, "Don't." If the hall is once closed, when once we have been compelled to submit to the extortions of Cambridge boarding-house keepers, to undergo...
...have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies of the students in the older colleges. There is but little doubt that we Westerners do not properly appreciate the work done at Yale and Amherst and Harvard, and we are too liable to assume from instances that we have heard or known that boys, as a rule, go to these places to have a good time, and that but little work is done. Dissipation, athletic sports, frivolity of all sorts, we fancy, is the business of an Eastern college man. Now this is unjust, and a candid student will...
...John L. Thomas, Jr., late collector of port at Baltimore, was heard Saturday by the senate committee on civil service reform...