Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...telegraph announces that Mr. Samuel Hill of Seattle has established an endowment for a chair of Russian language and literature at the University of Washington. Mr. Hill is one of the overseers of Harvard University, and a man of large fortune. His latest gift to education resembles those remarkable endowments established by the will of Cecil Rhodes...
...students. Until 1915 the number was 4,750, but it has now fallen to 1,505. The drop is due to the departure of enemy students and the decrease of students from friendly and neutral countries. Still, all alien and enemy students have not gone; there are sixty-two Russian students, two English five Italian and one Belgian, but they are doubtless of German origin, or possibly a cosmopolitan class of mosaic nationality. New York...
...contributions, "The Genesis of Beauty," by R. Cutler '16, easily takes first rank. The slight bit of narrative in this sketch is thrown against a background of splendid color, and the whole thing is done quickly and powerfully. The author might be suspected to have been recently diving into Russian novelists, but if this is the result of any such reading, it is to be highly commended. Perhaps equally successful is O. W. Larkin '18 in "Imagination in a Pawnshop," which with the skill and the tantalizing of Frank Stockton Smith leaves us in anything but a satisfied frame...
...During the second part of the session, from August 10 to August 30, Professor Volait will give a course on literary life in the nineteenth century. Professor Maurer will give a course which will consider the theory of translation, with its practical application in translating from English, German, and Russian into French. The other courses will give practice in composition and grammar...
...their annual business meeting and the following evening at the Montclair Club at Montclair, N. J. Since the recess several more concerts have been added to the list,--Concord, Chestnut Hill, and Newtonville. Perhaps the most significant event was the concert of the Glee Club in collaboration with the Russian Music Society at a benefit performance in Copley Theatre. May 23 marked the entrance of the Glee Club into its new room in the Music Building. A short dedicatory meeting was held, attended by former leaders, members of the club and of the Department of Music...