Word: primae
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When Miss Ricci sang for her last time in Philadelphia before coming to Boston, a lot of Princeton students, her devoted admirers, came up to see the opera, and the pretty prima donna returned the compliment by dressing in the college colors-yellow and black. -[Beacon...
...anonymous letter threatened Patti with shooting if she sang in "Faust" Monday night. The prima donna was very thoroughly frightened, but it proved only a scare...
This is a prima donna. She is in a dress made by Worth. This is about all the worth she has. She cannot sing, but she kisses in G minor. She is performing a hymn; some notes are so soft that you cannot hear them. These are her best notes.-[Music...
Frau Materna, a Syrian by birth, will be the prima donna at the New York May festival...
...Dealing with the matter in the light of a considerable experience, the Faculty determined to adopt the simple provision with respect to students of all classes, that habitual absence is prima facie evidence that the student is not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the University, and calls for inquiry, explanation, and such action as may be found fitted to the special circumstances, and that irregularity of attendance, unless accompanied by good scholarship, is to be treated and regarded in the same way. No scale of penalties is stated, and no precise line of absences or scholarship is given...