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...long ago, Director Primo Rivera, as he must now be called, withdrew several thousands of Spanish troops from Spanish Morocco. With the aid of the famed Moorish Chieftain, Raisuli, with whom Primo is now on excellent terms, a nonaggressive policy toward the Moorish rebels was adopted. The rebels were, however, quick to take advantage of the new order...
...follows: 1. Entrance of the Gladiators, Fuik 2. Overture, "King Lear", Kitolff 3. Waltz, "Waves of the Danube", Ivanoviet 4. Fantasia, "Lohengrin", Wagner 5. Two Northern Melodies (for strings, Grieg a. Popular Song. b. Cow-keepers Tune and Peasant dance, 6. Intermezze from "L'Amieo Fritz", Mascagni 7. Moorish Screnade, Elgar 8. Ouverture Solennelie, "1812", Tschalkowsky 9. Selection, "Carmen", Bizet 10. Minuet, Bolzont 11. Invitation to the Dance, Weber Berlioz
Jehudah Halevi was born in Spain in 1085 during the period of high Moorish civilization when that country was the only one in which the persecuted race was tolerated. There the Jews held the balance of power. Owing to this toleration he received an excellent education and became a cultured man. He was a physician and philosopher with a charming personality, thoroughly balanced poetic temperament, and a keen imagination. The suffering of his race during the crusades gave form and thought to his poetical power, and he was so impressed with the fact that the function...
...Sales prize of $45 has been awarded to Howard Farlowe Kent Cahill '10, of Cambridge, for a translation into Spanish of a passage from the Moorish Chronicles of Washington Irving. The judges were President Lowell, Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, and Mr. G. L. Lincoln...
...cast of characters: Azara, a Moorish princess, Miss A. B. Rice Odo, a page, Miss B. C. Child Rainuls, King of Provence, Mr. H. F. Merrill Gontran, his son, Mr. George Deane Malek, a Moorish chief, Mr. S. Townsend Ayman, a vassal Mr. E. Cartwright Garsie, an attendant, Mrs. Rebecca Howe Colas, Miss Adelaide Griggs A Huntsman, Mr. J. A. Rattigan