Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Prince of Baireuth persuades his sister to receive secretly a French master recommended to her by her brother. Meanwhile the prince has fallen in love with a picture of a princess, whom the Queen desires to see married to the Prince of Wales. When the latter is expected to come to Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the marriage depends on the acceptance of a commercial treaty. This he communicates to the princess, who is being held under surveillance for having received the French master. Intrigue follows intrigue and the prince is banished...
Professor Toy received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1856. In 1860 and 1861 he held the position of professor of Greek in Richmond University, Va. In 1864 he accepted the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at the University of Alabama, where he remained one year. He held the professorship of Greek in Furman University for the years 1868 and 1869, when he was appointed professor of Old Testament Interpretation in the Southern Baptist Theological School. After ten years' service in this position, Professor Toy received from Harvard in 1880 appointments as Dexter...
After being graduated from the University, Mr. Forbes studied for two years in Italy and Greece. He then spent several years at New College, Oxford, after which he returned to America. In 1903 he became a master at the Middlesex School at Concord, but was obliged to give up this work on account of illness. The following year he again visited Europe and pursued his studies in the important picture galleries of England, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Mr. Forbes has served as trustee of public reservations in Massachusetts and as trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music...
...University fencing squad will begin its regular practice in the old Trophy Room of the Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, under the instruction of M. Pierre Pianelli, the fencing-master of the Boston Athletic Association. Beginning with today practice will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3.30 to 6 o'clock. In order to create greater interest and to develop new material, novice tournaments for medals will be held during the season once in every two-weeks, in addition to the usual novice, scrub, and interclass tourneys. These latter will take place in February...
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Soloist: Mr. George Proctor. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Brahms, Symphony No. 1, in C minor; Tschaikowski, Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 1, in B-flat minor; Wagner, Prelude to "The Master-singers of Nuremberg...