Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR NORTON has recommenced his lectures at the Lowell Institute, and they will take place every Tuesday and Friday evening. On Friday, November 3, the subject will be the Cathedral of Chartres. Next week Professor Norton will lecture on the Duomo of Sienna, the following week on the Duomo of Florence, and subsequently on the English Cathedrals...
...only exponent of refined musical taste in the College. The writer in the Advocate advises Professor Paine to petition the Faculty for a few hundred dollars to hire a decent quartette. Perhaps it would be well for the writer to get some of Professor Paine's ideas on the subject...
...Class Day and Commencement, and of adopting in its place the decidedly more appropriate and scholarly garment of the gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan for the restoration of a costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment...
...subject is somewhat complicated, I shall attempt merely to bring forward a single strong argument, which seems to me clearly to settle the question...
...meeting him. The book, as a whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will certainly be worth reading from curiosity. As for the rest, we are strongly inclined to think that the niche in the temple of Fame reserved for the man who treats this subject in a masterly style is still unoccupied...