Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...giving these prizes is supplied from the income of a farm given by Bishop Berkeley to the college in 1733, which has been leased for a long period of years. The examination set is always some connected passage of Latin prose. Last year it took the shape of a letter from one college friend to another. The number of prizes is not fixed, depending on the quality of the work offered, but generally six first and six second prizes are awarded. The awards are always books, but the recipient is allowed to select for himself. These prizes are not convertible...
...chorus of 300, will give a concert this afternoon in Music Hall in aid of the Vienna Monument Fund. Mme. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann, Miss Louise Meisslinger, Mr. Paul Kalisch and Mr. Emil Fischer will be the soloists. The programme: -Overture (Magic Flute); Tamino's Aria (Magic Flute); Letter Duet (Marriage of Figaro); Sarastio's Aria (In these Sacred Halls); and the Mozart Requiem for chorus, orchestra and soloists...
...second letter which we publish, short and pithy, is from Mr. Frank Hatton, of the New York Press. He says...
...been much sarcastic and unjust comment by the daily press of the country upon the award of the Bowdoin prize. This comment was aroused by an article which has been going the rounds and which was full of misrepresentations. The facts in the case are clearly stated in a letter from Professor H. W. Torrey, one of the judges, to the Boston Post. Of the three judges appointed to examine the essays, Professor Torrey alone had read the Aunex essay, when it was recalled by the dean as ineligible for the prize, because of the conditions of candidature, limiting...
...delicate and pure composition. We feel that it has the inspiration of true poetry. The verses "But yesterday, I thought of Spring," by the same writer, are good, but they have not the strong originality that marks the other contribution. Under the head of correspondence is published a manly letter from the pen of "Tenebo." The writer believes that something more than success in athletics should be the test of popularity among students. We have no doubt that the sentiments. expressed in the letter will have the sympathy of a large number of men at Harvard...