Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Saturday's CRIMSON an article appeared by Mr. Virgil Thomson purposing to be a criticism of a recent concert given by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. It is generally supposed that the word criticism means an expression of one's views from an unbiased and impersonal standpoint--especially in its application to concerts, paintings, and the like. Certainly none but a most unmitigated neurastheniac would attempt to apply this somewhat broad definition to Mr. Thomson's effort of Saturday last. That there was something radically unfair about his "criticism" and his presumptuous attitude the following three points will, I hope...
...subjects of the four preceding lectures of the series were "Dante", "Milton", "Sophocles", and "Virgil...
Professor E. K. Rand '24, Professor on Latin, will lecture on "Virgil" today at 1.30 in Emerson D. This is the fourth of the series of lectures on ancient and modern authors planned primarily for students concentrating in fields of ancient and modern literatures...
...University Glee Club will sing at Symphony Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock, with Miss Dusolina Giannini, soprano, as assisting artist. Features of the program are the "Chanson a Baire" dedicated to the Club by Monsleu Poulenc, and "Tribulationes" by Virgil Thomson '22, now an assistant in the Music Department. The latter, though essentially modern, retains throughout the spirit of the 15th Century, the words being taken from an anthem in a collection of the Vatlean Choir...
...subject of the first lecture of this series was "Dante" Lectures on "Sophocles" "Goethe" and "Virgil" will follow...