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... given at Harvard as early as 1862. In 1876 John Knowles Paine , who had previously been the instructor in music , was made full professor , and the music courses were for the first time counted towards the college degrees . Professor ...
... given at Harvard as early as 1862. In 1876 John Knowles Paine , who had previously been the instructor in music , was made full professor , and the music courses were for the first time counted towards the college degrees . Professor ...
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... given in the " grammar of music , " i.e. , harmony and counterpoint , and in the construction of mu- sical form , canon and fugue , etc . , - so that those who have original musical ideas may be taught to express themselves easily and ...
... given in the " grammar of music , " i.e. , harmony and counterpoint , and in the construction of mu- sical form , canon and fugue , etc . , - so that those who have original musical ideas may be taught to express themselves easily and ...
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... given prefer- ence over a dozen applicants and was awarded a lucrative position with one of the great American publishing - houses , simply because he had taken a course in Harmony . So much for the ordinary college student . Let us now ...
... given prefer- ence over a dozen applicants and was awarded a lucrative position with one of the great American publishing - houses , simply because he had taken a course in Harmony . So much for the ordinary college student . Let us now ...
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... given in ways consistent with the general method of college teaching . These methods aim to inculcate knowledge by words rather than by the acquisi- tion of skill through contact with things . The study of the performance of music comes ...
... given in ways consistent with the general method of college teaching . These methods aim to inculcate knowledge by words rather than by the acquisi- tion of skill through contact with things . The study of the performance of music comes ...
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... given , as may be noted in the appended version , assigns the preacher no name ; the place of meeting is " before the church ; " the conver- sation is more direct and quite bare of ornament ; the lesson in the cathe- dral's shadow is ...
... given , as may be noted in the appended version , assigns the preacher no name ; the place of meeting is " before the church ; " the conver- sation is more direct and quite bare of ornament ; the lesson in the cathe- dral's shadow is ...
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Page 15 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 4 - Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and grovelling thing, that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny...
Page 13 - Jewelled with sunbeams on its mural crown, Rose like a visible prayer. " Behold ! " he said, "The stranger's faith made plain before mine eyes. As yonder tower outstretches to the earth The dark triangle of its shade alone When the clear day is shining on its top, So, darkness in the pathway of Man's life Is but the shadow of God's providence, By the great Sun of Wisdom cast thereon ; And what is dark below is light in Heaven.
Page 4 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains : From whence shall my help come? My help cometh from the LORD, Which made heaven and earth.
Page 21 - May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 3 - To be able to write ! Throughout Mr. Ogilvy's life, save when he was about one and twenty, this had seemed the great thing, and he ever approached the thought reverently, as if it were a maid of more than mortal purity. And it is, and because he knew this she let him see her face, which shall ever be hidden from those who look not for the soul, and to help him nearer to her came assistance in strange guise, the loss of loved ones, dolour unutterable; but still she was beyond his reach. Night by night,...
Page 3 - Despised and Rejected, the uncomplaining hero drains his cup of suffering and virtue. These are notes that please the great heart of man. Not only love, and the fields, and the bright face of danger, but sacrifice and death and unmerited suffering humbly supported, touch in us the vein of the poetic. We love to think of them, we long to try them, we are humbly hopeful that we may prove heroes also. We have heard, perhaps, too much of lesser matters. Here is the door, here is the open air. Itur in...
Page 26 - The first annual meeting of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics was held in Washington, DC, on the i4th and I5th of May, 1901.
Page 20 - He received a good elementary education in the schools of his native state, and took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Ohio, where he remained until 1855.
Page 3 - ... and from gray to white in her service, were her luminous eyes sorrowful because she was not for him, and she bent impulsively toward him, so that once or twice in a long life he touched her fingers, and a heavenly spark was lit, for he had risen higher than himself, and that is literature.