Word: parts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been suggested that the Associated Glee Club and Pierian should give a concert in Boston some time in the coming Spring for the benefit of the University Boat Club. Before attempting such a plan we should wish to make the orchestral part of the society more complete. For this purpose there will be a second trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality after the Christmas recess. The following instruments are needed: First violins, viola, double bass, trombone, second flute and piccolo, oboe, bassoon and kettledrum. As we said above, this benefit concert is merely a suggestion, which may be carried...
...club was to cultivate the art of speaking in public, and that it was the intention of the club to continue these public meetings at intervals throughout the year. The selections, he said, had been prepared by the speakers without any drill or assistance whatever, on the part of the instructors in elocution...
There are only two American universities which include music in their regular curriculum for the bachelor's degree; they are Harvard and the University of Michigan. But music has always been a traditional part of a liberal education. It was one of the socalled "seven arts" of the mediaeval universities; and at Oxford and Cambridge it has been continued uninterruptedly to this day, among the regular courses of instruction. There the degrees of Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music, based on theoretical work and actual competition required from candidates, stand on an equal footing with the degrees in Arts...
...reputation of Mr. Gosse as one of the most scholarly of English critics and as an author and poet, as well as the interest of his subject, will secure a large attendance from the college itself. It is peculiarly a mark of courtesy towards the college on the part of Mr. Gosse that he will next Monday deliver this lecture for the first time...
...undergraduates exclusively. On these the burden of editing such a paper has fallen so heavily, that there has repeatedly been danger of its discontinuance. The editors have asked, not only for financial support, but also for contributions from any member of the University. This year, we understand, the greater part of the prose writing falls upon a single man. As he graduates next spring, there is an absolute necessity that there should be new men ready to continue the work. Unless some offer themselves in the course of the year, the "Lampoon," we fear, will, to the lasting shame...