Word: human
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation, and if the right man be found, will be a great step in advance. The other special articles are sufficiently explained by their titles,--"The Harvard Meleager," by R. Norton '92; "The Harvard Law Clubs," by J. P. Cotton...
...neither like that of the modern French opera with its somewhat lighter mixture of the serious and the comic, nor like that of Wagner with its long monologues and extreme use of leading motives. The subject of the opera is not mythical, but one of human interest, and it makes an instant appeal to the enthusiasm and emotion of the hearer. All musicians who have made a study of "Azara" are convinced of its great originality, its striking harmonies and melodies, masterly orchestration, dramatic power and picturesque scenic features. "Azara" marks a new epoch in American music, and it will...
Here Thoas, King of Tauris, pays his suit to Iphigenie, but his attentions are repelled. The king, angered at being rejected, orders her, as priestess of the temple, to execute as human sacrifice, and for that purpose hands over two strangers to her, whom he has found on the seashore...
...game between the Harvard and the Yale, Whist Clubs has been set for March 31, and will be played at Cambridge. The representatives of last year's team still in College are N. S. Kelly 2L., A. J. Halle 2L. and M. Human 2L. Eight men will be on each side. During the five years that the Harvard Whist Club has been playing Yale, Harvard has won every game. Last year Yale was defeated by four tricks. This year the Whist Club has lost two games, one to Medford, the other to the Cavendish Whist Club. It has defeated...
Primarily, the work is a satire upon Norwegian character, bringing out its lack of personality and vacillating half-heartedness, but the poet went beyond the limits of his original conception, and gave to the world the picture of a misguided human soul, in which people of every nation may see themselves more or less prefigured...