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...about the Professor: "And though his Avarice was notorious, enough to get the Name of a Philagyrius fixed upon him, yet his Cruelty was more scandalous than his Avarice. He was a Rare Scholar himself, and he made more such; but their Education truly was In the School of Tyrannus...
Eaton was soon hailed into court to answer charges about his so-called "School of Tyrannus." Since then, the College's misbehaving students have taken to the courts more often than its tennis teams...
...Faculty. The Administration sat quietly by, watching carefully all the while. It tacitly approved the productions offered by the French, German, English, and Classics Departments, as these had an aura of educational value. The debut, in 1881, of this phase of dramatics was the performance of "Oedipus Tyrannus" in Sanders. Its being by an ancient made it passable. Its being given in Greek made it somewhat laudable. And its being the first known performance in America of a classical play in the original language combined novelty with austerity, making it indubitably safe to perform...
...Toccata and Fugue in D minor), Mozart's A major Violin Concerto, and Wotan's Farewell and the Fire Music from "Die Walkure". On Monday night in Jordan Hall, the Orchestra of the New England Conservatory of Music is to perform the prelude to John Knowles Paine's "Oedipus Tyrannus", three excerpts from John Alden Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator", and other interesting works...
Greater than life, the Greeks said. So those who understood created "Seven against Thebes," "The Frogs," "Oedipus Tyrannus." But lesser men followed, and they could not understand. The race of blue-eyed, fair-haired men discovered that the secret of greatness is a mystery not to be taught, rarely to be learned. The Romans came, conquered, and the lamp was extinguished...