Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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JOHN KNOWLES PAINE, professor of music in Harvard University, says in the course of an interview in the April issue of Music: "I am heartily in favor of opera in our own language, and do what I can for it. Now, take that company at the Castle Square. Miss Lane...
Mr. Copeland began his final lecture last evening with a brief description of a country library in which he passed much time and read many books before coming to college. Among the volumes of this collection was an early edition of the Waverley novels. Sir Walter, said the speaker, is...
In France, England and Germany architecture closely followed the Italian model. Step by step in France the stony fortresses gave place to the chateaux. But Frenchmen, refusing to accept Italian ideas in their entirety, adapted them to their own use. The grand houses of the time of the Valois are...
Turning to England, we find the architecture here starting with the home as the unit. One by one the various phases of French architecture took their places in England. The native artists, however, modified and changed these ideas to suit their own tastes. The world has never known more homelike...
The most obvious course for modern designers is to turn to the remains of old houses in our own country. They possessed dignity, simplicity, modesty and grace. By going back and studying the ancient types of architecture, and then adapting them to modern ideas, an architect can evolve a plan...