Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many schools have been established with the end in view of fitting aspirants for the stage, but, under their training, it is only by talent and years of assiduous toil that a pupil is prepared to appear before a critical audience and win applause and fame. It has remained for our own university to solve all doubts, and found a school in which the dull and talented alike are fitted in a week, sometimes even less, for exalted positions on the stage. Of the peculiar fitness of Boston for a debut, on account of its well known "cultured" audiences, nothing...
...Byron's copy of Ossian's Poems are a number of critical and eulogistic notes which seem to have shown Byron's great appreciation of Macpherson's talent as a poet, and this appreciation is more directly shown by the fact that Byron gives a rythmical version of Ossian's address to the sun, beginning thus...
...Harvard students contemplate giving a concert in Bangor, if sufficient encouragement is held out. The musical talent is represented by thirty students who comprise an orchestra known as the "Pierian Club," of established reputation, and the celebrated Harvard Glee Club. An evening of classical music, interspersed with choice selections of college songs, it is thought would prove quite entertaining. Some of the talented performers of the Pierian are well known in Bangor, both as instrumentalists and as composers. From what we hear of their performances we judge their programme is of a high order and of more varied character than...
...songs seems to have become one of the lost arts. With every year the appearance of new songs that have any distinctive college stamp and flavor is becoming more rare. It is difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college...
...individual men to the discouragement of the many is unfortunate, but this is the same thing that happens in any course of study or other pursuit. No one claims that the study of oratory or mathematics does not accomplish an excellent purpose simply because some men have more talent for those pursuits than their comrades and so reach a greater state of perfection...