Word: hofmann
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...programme for this evening's Hofmann concert consists of Weber's Concertstuck and Liszt's arrangement of Weber's Polacca, with orchestra; and for solos, two original pieces, Mendelssohn's Spinning Song and an improvisation...
There are going to be three more Hofmann concerts in Boston this week on Wednesday and Friday evenings at 8 and Thursday afternoon...
...Josef Hofmann, the renowned boy planist, will make his first appearance in Boston in Music Hall, to morrow evening. He will also play on Monday evening at the same place...
...character of the pamphlet is such that it can be taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university on the question of admitting to the university graduates of Realschulen on the same footing as graduates of a Gymnasium. It is very fortunate that...
Prof. White, in his preface, explains the contents of the book and gives a history of the events which gave rise to the controversy. Although Prof. Hofmann's address is mainly taken up with a question which touches but lightly upon the topic of most interest to us at present, in conclusion he discusses the principal subject-"that of admitting students to the Universities without the literary training which a German Gymnasium affords, and especially without a knowledge of Greek...