St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-06
Men, Women and Events.
Death of HERNIA m Levi.

conductor, in Giessen, on May 10
He was considered one of the great.
est Wagnerian conductors of Ger
many. He was born in Glessen in
1889, and was pupil of Vincenz
Lachner at Mannheim, and of the
Leipsic Conservatory. He began his
career as aconductor at Saarbrucken
in 1859, and occupied positions sue.
cessively at Rotterdam and Carls-
ruhe. In 1872 he went to Munich,
where be made his greatest reputa-
ton. He retired from the direction
of the Royal Opera there in 1896 on
account of failing health; in 1896 he
received the title of General Musical
Director. He was an ardent adherer
OF Wagner, personally intimate with
him, and conducted the first perform
ance of "Parsifal' at Bayreuth in
1882. He was also a friend of
Brahms and an admirer of his music,
and it is said to have been at Lewis
instance that the F minor pianoforte
quintet of this master, originally
written as a sonata for four hands
on two pianos, was rewritten in it's
more familiar form. Levi was sue.
ceeded at Munich by Richard
Strauss.
President Hadley, OF Vale, though
a layman, will deliver the annual
baccalaureate this year.
The Rev. DR. William GLADDEN. will
preach the baccalaureate sermon at
Wellesley College on June "a.
F. B. Carpenter, painter of the
famous picture of Lincoln reading
the emancipation proclamation to
his cabinet, died OF paralysis in a
New York hospital May %. He
was 70 years of age.
A memorial to the late Archibald
Forbes, the war correspondent and
author, has been presented by his
widow to the University of Aberdeen.
1t is large bronze cross, with an
inscription, and will stand in the
chapel.
A recent Encouragement ofthe relics
in the Agricultural Museum of the
University of Illinois brought to
light the old OK yoke made by Abra,
ham Lincoln, and presented to the
University in the early seventies. By
order of President Draper the yoke
was inclosed in glass topped case,
made of boards from the old Lincoln
home at Springfield.
DR.. James Waddell Upper has
been appointed associate in English
at Bryn Mawr College, in place of
DR., William Allan Nelson, who goes
to Harvard. DR.. Upper took the
degree of A. B. at Dalhousie in 1891, |
and that Of Phi. D. at Johns Hopkins
in 1895. For the last two years he
has been professor of English at
Western University, Ontario.
One of the most important indus
tries of the Bahama Islands is the
gathering of pink pearls. 1t is the
only place in the world where these
pearls are found. They are not
taken from the oyster shell, but from
a shell resembling a large snail shell,
called a "conch." These pearls,
when perfect, bring very high prices,
it is said, ranging from $50 to S.
600.
DR.. Frank Morley, for thirteen
years professor of mathematics in
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa,
has just accepted a call from Johns
Hopkins University. Heis to become
the head ofthe m athematical depart
ment in that institution, DR.. Nor
ley is graduate of Cambridge Uni
versity, England, and since he came
to this country he has won for him.
self the reputation of being inferior
to no other geometer on this side of
the water.
Through the individual efforts of
the plucky scholars of Wellesley that
receives 100000 at its
graduation this year. Some time
since John D. Rockefeller offered to
donate 100000, providing like
amount was raised by the school be-
fore the graduation this year. The
time was fast passing when the
alumna of the college were appealed
to, and they set to work selling
lowers and opened shops and raised
The amount necessary to make the
donation good.
Rev. DR.. Lorimer will start for Eu-