Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essential part of the project is a moderate scale of prices for seats, which will be considerably less than those charged by the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The management of the house will be in trusted to Mr. Henry Russell, the present director of the San Carlo Company, who has had several years' experience in operatic management in Italy and in London, as well as in the United States. The opera house will probably be completed by the fall...
...much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less interesting. It is noteworthy that both poems tell of a love which shall be "not as before...
...full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University, stand out quite uniquely. It is difficult to analyze the causes of this condition of affairs, but in the main we believe that both students and Faculty are to blame with a more or less considerable portion charged to the atmosphere of our highly academic University. This, we confess, is a much overworked and abused explanation, applied indiscriminately to University affairs in general...
...public recognition of their efforts is granted to those who have as important a part as any others in making this University what it is. This occasion is the award of academic distinctions tonight. These men deserve something more than mere academic honors, land those who have been less fortunate can show their own appreciation by their presence at the meeting...
...Langdon who has recently been reelected District Attorney of San Francisco, has become the most powerful reform figure in the politics of the Far West. A public executive of exceptional organizing ability, he has surrounded himself with the best expert talent of the nation and in less than two years has been responsible for redeeming the City of San Francisco from the clutch of graft and corruption. At various times he has held a nomination for public office from every political party in San Francisco-Democratic, Republican, Independence League, Union Labor and Non-Partisan-and in turn he has broken...