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museums will bu thrown open and the general
public is cordially invited to be present. Ap
paratus and other educational appliances will
be displayed and the numbers of the Faculty
and all instructors earnestly desire all persons
interested to make themselves entirely at
home and feel free to enter at once into con
versation with those in charge of the differ
ent rooms, without the formality of an intro
duction ; letting question and answer give the
largest possible information as to the work
and methods of the University. At three
o'clock, if the weather permits, the Cadet
Battalion will have its first dress parade for
the season. The buildings and grounds will
be closed again promptly at six o'clock.
At exactly eight o'clock the sittings not al
ready taken in the Lansing opera house will
be thrown open to the public ; and shortly
thereafter the Charter Day oration will be de
livered by President Low. His theme will
be "The American University."
The disposition of sittings has become more
and more. a problem as the numbers in the
University increase. This year the state offi
cers will be assigned the lower boxes and
loges ; the ladies of the Faculty will be as
signed the balcony boxes ; the stage will be
occupied by the Faculty and by the Faculties
of other colleges, and invited guests : the
parquet will be given to the Legislature ; the
dress circle to the alumni and members of the
senior class ; and the remainder of the house
to the students and their immediate friends
all unoccupied sittings being given to the
public, as above stated, at eight o'clock. This
seems to be the only feasible way in which
the audience can be cared for. It is impos
sible, of course, for all who desire to hear
President Low to find sittings or even stand
ing room in even the Lansing ; which gives
sharp emphasis to the need in Lincoln of a
convention hall capable of seating from three
thousand to iWo thousand people.
The purposes of the reunion on the even
ing of Tuesday are such as to preclude its
being thrown open to the public. Otherwise,
of course, the invitation would be extended,
without formality, to all citizens to be pres
ent. The general public reception, however,
must necessarily be deferred until the after
noon of Charter Day, Wednesday.
ZHusical Hotelets.
Orchestra practice for the May festival
will commence this month.
Nineteen operas have been written with
Christopher Columbus as the hero.
Ovide Musin and his company have com
menced their tour of this country.
The programme of the first concert ever
given by the Abbe Liszt was sent to the mus
ical exhibition . at Vienna. It was dated
1820.
Clementine De Vere, Italo Campanini and
Edward Remenyi have joined forces for a
concert tour. It will be a strong combination
company.
Mascagni has finished his fourth opera,
"William Ratcliff." After finishing two
single act operas, he will begin a grand op
era, "Nero."
A recital will be given about the third
week of February by the ,music department.
The programme will consist mostly ot selec
tions by the younger members of the depart
ment. Last week the people of Lincoln had the
opportunity of hearing Pauline Hall in Er
minie. Miss Hall is a talented singer and
her support is splendid. Her chorus is ex
ceptionally fine.
Gotlieb Kreiger, the veteran musician,
friend of Spontini Wagner and other
noted musicians, on his retirement, after fifty
years of active labor, was decorated by the
King of Wurtemberg.
The outlook for the coming musicale
season is very encouraging. Societies are
being organized in ever)' section of the coun
try. The programmes that have been an
nounced are splendid.
A splendid account of Master Cyril Tyler,
the boy soprano who has captured the East,
is given in the January "Music." It says
that no child as gifted as he has appeared
since the days of Patti.
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