Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...larger college of life each man must govern his own action, each man is his own master, each man must lay out his own life by his determination for right or wrong. Here the benefits of university education is apparent, for by teaching a man how to control all his powers, it furnishes a basis for any occupation. And in any occupation success demands that a man be full-grown. Why should not this success be easy of attainment, since we, the sons of God, are heirs of almighty power? Religion is a law of life, an infinite purpose, commanding...
...FRIDAY, April 8, 1892.The Caffe de Roma was this evening the scene of the first dinner of the Harvard Club of Rome. For the first time its walls rang with the words of "Fair Harvard," "The Irish Jubilee," and "Finnegan the Umpire." W. B. S. Clymer '76, was toast-master. There were also present B. C. Weld '89, R. H. Weld Jr., '90, J. A. Blanchard '91, Matthew Luce Jr., '91, Jacob Wendell Jr., '91, R. L. Emerson...
...Overture to the "Flying Dutchman," is based on an old legend, well-known in seafaring nations, in which the action centres about a spectral seaman, whose appearance to a ship's company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...
Grand Opera House - Master...
Grand Opera House - Master...