Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
...something. While we may admit that this is the object to be sought, sharp differences of opinion exist, and will remain, in regard to the means of attaining it. One question thrusts itself prominently forward: every man who is to study a profession must, if he is serious, master that subject well; why, then, it may be asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly to getting as wide an acquaintance with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone...
...sometimes told that after youths are emancipated from the rigid discipline of the school master, they cannot be made to take very seriously any studies which do not have a manifest bearing on their career in life. But if it be true that they cannot be led to work hard in an earnest effort to understand the knowledge slowly wrought out, and the civilization painfully achieved by man upon this planet, then our colleges do not deserve to survive and will certainly...
Trials for the Appleton Chapel Choir will be continued in the choir loft of Appleton Chapel today between 1 and 4 o'clock, when all men who desire to sing should report to Dr. A. T. Davison '06, organist and choir master. Positions in the choir are open to all members of the University, and successful applicants are paid for their services. The south side-door of the Chapel will be open during the time of the trials...
...case of demand, Mr. Alloo's endeavor will be to lift the orchestra out of its traditional rut of popular music, and to put more of the classic and serious modern music into the season's repertoire. By thus affording to students the opportunity for serious study of master works, it is believed that the orchestra will come nearer to fulfilling its proper place in the University...