Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although based on a mediaeval Provencal theme, the opera is thoroughly modern in style and contains many passages of remarkable lyrical and dramatic beauty...
...chief fault of the Glee Club is the weakness of the first tenors, who are unable to carry their theme sufficiently well against the other parts...
...effectiveness of well managed pathos when put into verse. "The Letter of Condolence," a story taken from college life, unlike many of its companions, has an ethical tone and skill in treatment which made it an unusually creditable performance. Equally commendable is "Miss Sarsh Eilen's Answer," though its theme is anything but academic. Of the other stories "How I was Translated by Horace," is fancifulness run riot, while "The Night and the Mood" would road better if further condensed into the form of a riddle and the answer appended. The number is ended with a somewhat choleric book review...
...current number of the Advocate through maturity of treatment and variety of theme is unusually good. The leading editorial--on criticism--by neglecting the precaution of premising its definition of good criticism and over-looking the fact that, besides the destructive, there is an appreciative criticism often as illuminating as the work itself, falls into the error of condemning the good for the sins of the bad. The second editorial, an appeal to the serious minded for a right understanding of the "College butterfly," is very seasonable. The longer contributions are all in prose with one exception, "The Two Wreaths...
...Washington Gladden, D.D., of Columbus, Ohio, will deliver the first of the William Belden Noble Lectures for 1902-1903, in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight. The general theme of the lectures this year is "Witnesses to the Light," each of the lectures having for its subject a noted character, who, by excellence in his particular line of work, advanced the thought and culture of his time. The subject of the lecture tonight will be "Dante Alighieri, the Poet." The lecture will be open to the public...