Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chapel life is a most essential feature. Dr. Temple's superannuation which fixes the age for sixth form men at nineteen prevails at many schools. The classics are the basis of classification, and a sixth form man often takes lower form mathematics. Music is much fostered; their Eton boating song so popular here is not so highly regarded in England. The songs are written by the teachers and the music master sets them to music. The sentiment in all these songs is very noble and elevating. The Harrow songs are noted all over England. They are very unique, and deal...
...Reine de Saba," was effectively rendered by Mme. Nordica. The piece is quiet throughout, with little chance for dramatic display. The soloist had an admirable conception of the selection and though she did not show herself to such advantage in it as in the more dramatic and stirring song "The Erl King," yet her rendering was appreciated, for she had to appear three times before the audience ceased their applause...
...chief interest is in natural history, and he has trained himself to observe nature with great fidelity, and especially to study the habits of birds. He is most of all interested in the birds of New England, and whenever he is afforded an opportunity of studying the love-song of the bittern, or of watching the red-breasted robin, he is thoroughly happy. The power of minute observation which is every-where displayed - be it in discussing "The Coming of the Birds," or "The Equinoctial on the Dunes, "The Couquest of Pegan Hill," or "Chocoroa" and its valleys, - reminds...
...programme of the second Symphony Concert held tonight in Sanders' Theatre Theatre commencing at 7.45 is below. The soloist will be Mme. Nordica. Programme: Overture, "Hebrides," Mendelssohn; Aria, "La Reine de Saba," Gounod; Suite, op. 55, Tschaikowsky; Song, "The Erl King," Schubert; Overture, "Euryanthe," Weber...
...join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir one's pulses...