Word: rustication
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prose story "A Woman There Was," is a study of a coquette, thoughtless but not all bad, and a sturdy unsophisticated rustic youth. The phases of feeling and the development of character are well set forth; but how could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told...
...dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt's sonnet, "Cloud-land," is compact and musical, and induces in the reader a mood as sympathetic as the writer's with a rustic scene in the mountains. I could wish there were less alliteration, and a less conspicuous contrast between the homeliness of "celebrate" and "move along," and the ornateness of "snow-jacinth" or the elegance of "wain." It might be said further that a "purple vale" cannot be situated exactly "amid the clouds...
...program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1.March, "Princess Ninetta," Strauss 2. Overture, "Raymond," A. Thomas 3. Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Strauss 4. Selection, "Florodora," Stuart 5. Scherzo, Valse and Malaguena from "Boabdill," Moszkowski 6. Albumblatt, Wagner Solo Violin, Mr. Jacques Hoffmann. 7. Rustic Dance, Cowen 8. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 9. Selection, "Little Cherub," Caryll 10. "A Day in Venice," Nevin 11. Intermezzo, "Naila," Delibes 12. March, "Serenade," Herbert
Following is the program for the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall this evening: 1Bridal March Mendelssohn 2 In the Garden, from "The Rustic Symphony" Goldmark 3 Overture, "Raymond" A. Thomas 4 Waltz, "Thousand and One Nights" Strauss 5 Overture, "Rienzi" Wagner 6 The Deluge Saint Saens Solo Violin, Mr. Jacques Hoffmann. 7 Overture, "Pique Dame" Suppe 8 Fantasy, "Aida" Verdi 9 Overture, "Orpheus aux Enfers" Offenbach 10 Selection, "It Happened in Nord- land" Herbert 11 Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel 12 March, "Austria" Zach
Surveys have been completed for the '77 gate and lodge to be erected on Massachusetts Avenue at the Yard entrance leading to Gore Hall. The plans have been drawn by McKim, Meade and White, and work will begin this month. The lodge will be built of rustic birch with limestone trimmings. A cut of the gate will be published later in the CRIMSON...