Word: towns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Francke has been traveling in Switzerland, stopping for some time at Berne. He is at present in Germany, and plans to make a considerable stay in Berlin and in Flensburg, his native town in Schleswig--Holstein. He is rewriting in German his "History of German Literature," and is also selecting specimens for the Harvard Germanic Museum...
Programme: Schumann, Overture, "Genoveva"; Mozart, Aria, "II Seraglio"; Edward Elgar, Overture, "Cockaigne" (In London Town); A. Thomas, Aria, Mad Scene from Hamlet; Brahms, Symphony...
...great differences between the musical spirit of Germany and France in comparison with that of our own country is that music, and in fact all the arts, play a far larger part in the daily life of the people than with us. There is hardly a town in Germany of twenty thousand or more inhabitants which does not have an opera house with a local troupe giving continual performances. If a German could not go to the opera two or three times a week, he would feel that he was losing one of the greatest enjoyments in life...
...entitled "A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its Present State." The value of the book is due chiefly to its appendix, which contains chronological lists, down to 1848, of legislative grants, donations from individuals and societies, and gifts of real estate from individuals and the town of Cambridge; and a map of the Yard, showing the original parcels of land from which it was made up. The appendix also contains documents relating to John Harvard's a genealogy, and a number of interesting Harvard epitaphs...
Drape { the Red and Blue New Haven town } in black...