Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William S. Rainsford, of St. George's Church, New York, addressed the University Religious Meeting last night on the theme of "Courage." He spoke in part as follows: Only the man who sees life sanely and sees it whole possesses true courage. It is a necessary quality in the development of every race. In its primitive form courage is only brutal, but it is this brute force and brute courage from which higher and more refined virtues spring. Brute courage reaches a certain point where it does not satisfy; it must be allied to faith. There are several checks upon...
...Peer Gynt Suite" played by the orchestra was enthusiastically received. In "Morgenstimmung," where Grieg gives the scene of Peer's death, the joyousness of the daybreak is strangely contrasted with the sad minor strains of which death is the theme. In "Aase's Tod" is expressed the sinking to rest of a soul wearied with the sorrows of life. "Anitras Tanz" is an infectious little dance into which Grieg has introduced an Oriental element. The final movement, 'In der Halle des Berg Konig's," introduces the troll music, an exuberant staccato, illustrative of the grotesque, fantastic, splendor of the unearthly...
...Sanders Theatre on March 22. This play was selected because of the fitness in giving precedence to Germany's greatest poet, of the intrinsic beauty of the play, and of the fact that, for students of Greek or of Comparative Literature, the treatment by a modern dramatist of a theme that had been handled by Euripides offers much interest. Furthermore, the simplicity of the stage-setting and the small number of actors are well adapted to the limitations of Sanders Theatre. Mr. Conried's company is excellent, and he has recently engaged one or two actors especially fitted...
...subjects discussed covered a very wide range of study, both ancient and modern. The address of Professor C. E. Norton, honorary president, on "The Work of the Institute" was one of the most interesting as well as the soundest and best conceived of the convention. He took as his theme the necessity of the present hurrying and unfinished age to study and imitate the repose and refinement of ancient civilization. Among other papers by Harvard men was one by Professor W. W. Goodwin on "The Hero Physician," which was illustrated with lantern slides. Professor F. W. Putnam spoke on "Ancient...