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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...South.- Blair in Record, Jan. 27, '88, p. 272. (b) Want of southern interest in negro education.- Rep't of S. C. Sup't of Education. (c) Impoverishment of South.- Brown in Cong. Rec., Jan. 19, '88, p. 566. (d) Insufficiency of school appropriations.- Rep't of La., Ga., N. C. school commissioners, 1886. 2. Uneducated voters harm the State.- Aristotle's Politics; Nation...
Columbia College students are to do all the supping when Fanny Davenport brings out "La Tosca" in New York...
Following is the programme of the symphony rehearsal and concert this afternoon and to-morrow evening in Music Hall: J. Brams, Academic Over ture; Mozart (first time), aria, Non temer amato bene; A. Rubenstein (first time) ballet music, La Vigne; Weber (first time, aria, Ines de Castro; L. V. Beethoven, symphony in C minor, No. 5. Soloist, Miss Gertrude Franklin...
...sounds like two rich warm opening chords to a pastorate symphony. One regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency...
...that evinces careful thought and deliberation. The merits of "Retrospect" are confined to the orthography of the dialect, and the poem can lay little claim to literary beauty. Quite different from this is "Acheron," a pretty simile in graceful, poetic language. The writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction...