Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement to establish closer relations between the University and the Boston Opera House, whereby students may better enjoy the advantages of the Opera, has been started under the leadership of E. F. Hanfstaengl '09. Mr. Hanfstaengl's idea is to make the connection between Harvard and the Opera one such as exists in Germany, in which university students are enabled to attend the Opera at reduced rates. The value of the Opera in rounding out a man's general education is universally recognized, and such a plan would be advantageous to both parties...
...taken today when a meeting for all who are interested will be held in the Committee Room of the Union at 4.30 o'clock. Final arrangements will be made for a dinner, which will be held in the Union on Thursday, March 21. Mr. Henry Russell of the Boston Opera Company will speak at the dinner as will several of the professors from the department of Music in the University...
...taking care to enlist the interest of men from as many different undergraduate activities as possible. Let the committee arrange a dinner to be held at an early date in the Union. Invite to the dinner President Lowell, Major Higginson, Mr. Russell, Professor Spalding, the orchestra conductors of the Opera, and as many prominent graduates interested in musical affairs as possible. Advertise the dinner as widely as possible, and try to get as many men to attend it as you can. Have some rattling speeches made, and then have a committee appointed at the dinner to go into the question...
Harvard has a grand opportunity to do something in the support of the Boston Opera which no other American college has yet attempted, and it would seem a calamity if such an opportunity were neglected. Yours very truly, JOHN REYNOLDS...
...third performance will be given in Jordan Hall, Boston, on Thursday evening; the fourth in the Opera House, Exeter, on Friday evening; and the fifth in "The Barn", Wellesley on Saturday evening. Tickets for these performances may be obtained at Herrick's, the Co-operative Branch, Batchelder's Book Store, Exeter, and of C. B. Randall '12, 11 Sacramento street...