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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choruses of five or six voices. For two centuries, a feeling for lyric music had been growing: Ben Jonson, and Shakespeare introduced music into their dramatic performances. During the Renaissance, an effort was made by Italian scholars to revive the ancient Greek music; and to this is due the origin of recitative, and solo music, as we have it. The illustrations on this subject were especially interesting. Italian opera was introduced into France by Lully in 1645; an interesting illustration was given from the opera of Alceste...
...lecture was closed by an illustration of the madrigal of Italian and English origin, by mixed quartet...
Education and educational institutions are of quite recent origin, compared with the other elements and institutions of the world at large. Similarly, then, we may say that educational government is quite recent compared with political government. Political government has had a long history, and has passed through so many changes that it is almost as hard to identify the present with the old system as it is to see the connection between man and monkey. The evolution has been slow but certain. No government at all, Monarchic communities, Monarchic states, oligarchies, kingdoms, empires, limited Monarchic governments, and republics, present...
...mind in a sound body." You men are intending to be influential in your lives, in a mental way and in business. Be also influential in a way that treats of subjects even more serious. To do this you must school yourselves now-and here-in we find the origin and purpose of the college Y. M. C. A. The world needs men who mean something, who want to do something, and who know...
...Brunonian editorially pokes fun at the commencement ceremonies in vogue at Brown, and gives utterance to the following irreverent criticism: "The President always appears in the cap and gown of the English universities, and the speakers, too, appear in gowns giving the impression to a stranger unacquainted with the origin of this peculiar dress, that he is attending some solemnity of the church of England or of Rome. When the speakers raise their arms in gesticulation, one unaccustomed to the dress thinks, "They all, flapping their wings, cried caw." During the delivery of the Latin Salutatory, all who know...