Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...largest audience that has yet attended this course was present last evening in Sever 11 to hear Prof. Paine's lecture and illustrations on Beethoven. The lecturer began with a short sketch of the stormy and unhappy life of the greatest of all musical geniuses,- his unhappy boyhood, and still more miserable manhood, embittered by the heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection...
...Although this little book is but a sketch of the principal measeres of protection, it is perhaps on that account more valuable. There remains nothing to be said on the theory of free trade; there remains everything to be done in arousing the American people. Tracts like this will be read by many who would not open a bulky volume of the same title, and they will find that what they regarded as the most confused and perplexing of subjects is not only comprehensible but also interesting. The style of the author is temperate throughout, and, indeed, he seems disposed...
...continued, and an essay on "Lime in Shakspeare's Plays," by Henry A. Clapp, forms a pendant to a former article. "George Frederick Handel: 1685-1885," by John S. Dwight; "Political Economy and Civil War," by J. Lawrence Laughlin; "Fate Dominant," by F. R. Stockton; "An Unclassified Philosopher," a sketch; and a paper on the sparrow, by Olive Thorne Miller, are the other attractions of the number. There are several poems and book reviews, among the latter one of Gosse's edition of Gray's Works.- Houghton, Mifflin...
Irving. Twenty or thirty pages of any volume of History; Rip Van Winkl and Sleepy Hollow (from the Sketch Book), or Dolph Heliger (from Bracebridge Hall), and Tales of Money Diggers (from Tales of a Traveller...
...covering, together with the report of the treasurer of the university, over 200 octavo pages. Owing to the limited space at the disposal of the CRIMSON, it will be impossible to do more than glance at the main points of the pamphlet. The first few pages are devoted to sketches of the three prominent professors whom the university lost by death last year,- Professor Sophocles, Professor Ellis, of the Medical School, and Dr. Abbot, of the Divinity School. The next important topic treated is the change in the required work of the freshman year, which, it is stated...