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...unconscious philosophy so tenacious that the four years of the college in its present technique can do little to disintegrate it. The cultural background of the well-to-do American home with its 'nice' people its amiable religiosity and vague moral optimism, is far more alien to the stern secular realism of modern university teaching that most people are willing to admit. The college world would find itself less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize what a challenge its won attitudes are to our homely American ways of thinking and feeling. Since...
...opening days of the mid-year term to talks by members of the Faculty was inaugurated last year, and met with so much success that it bids fair to become an annual custom. Those who are timid of "regular" ministers will perhaps lose some of their shyness before secular professors, deans, and doctors. The others will be much interested to learn the views of Dean Gay and those who follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make a deep appeal...
...composition must be for at least four voices and may be either with or without accompaniment. The text may be secular or sacred, but if sacred should be of the type exemplified by Cherubini and Mozart. The prize will be awarded only in case a composition is submit which the judges consider deserving...
Professor W. R. Spalding '87, of the Music Department, will repeat his lecture on "The Birth of Secular Instrumental Music and the Beginnings of Opera and Oratorio," at the Lowell Institute this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture is the third in the series on "The Evolution of the Art of Music." The next lecture in the series will be given on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...
Professor W. R. Spalding '87, of the Music Department, will give his third lecture in the series on "The Evolution of the Art of Music," at the Lowell Institute this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "The Birth of Secular Instrumental Music and the Beginnings of Opera and Oratorio." The lecture will be repeated on Wednesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, and the next lecture in the series will be given on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...