Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers for the Institute dinner at the Parker House tomorrow evening are: A. J. Cumnock. president; A. B. Nicholstoast master: J. Wendell Jr., poet; RtH. Post, orator; R. W. Atkinson, choristor. A. J. Cumnock, S. V. R. Crosby, W. K. Flint, are the committee...
...were intended to perform, and the best way to arrange them for fulfilling the purposes for which they are used. The lecture as a whole was extremely interesting, and at its close all felt that they had heard a subject will discussed by one who was evidently a thorough master...
...nature of a Greek plot is of course in many ways essentially different from that of an English plot, and for this reason it is difficult to draw comparisons. Comparisons in fact are unnecessary. It is enough that a tragedy of a Greek master should retain so much interest for a modern audience as the Electra has shown itself to retain. The fact certainly is worthy of reflection...
...foreigners in America," he shows that we have a "huge, ignorant vote" of Europeans and Africans which must be trained to an intelligent support of our institutions. This must be the task of active, educated men, "of vigorously independent minds," for an "enlightened public opinion alone can master the great race and economic problems" before us. The writer then goes on to show the great influence of public opinion in pushing measures of reform. He claims, contrary to Mr. Darling, that the best citizen should not feel "that it is his highest duty to save his party from the reproaches...
...shown to illustrate his remarks were from the metopes carried to London by Lord Elgin. The subject of the sculptures on the metopes is the battle of the centaurs. The figures are for the most part, rather stiff, but we have two which are really the work of a master. It is probable that the metopes were executed by different sculptors...