. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. were in no wise adapted to one whose thoughtswere for the most part devoted to the harmony ofsounds, and whose chief ambition in life was to be-come a thoroughly educated composer. He ac-cordingly placed himself under the instruction ofthe well known teachers, Eugene Thayer, S. and Dudley Buck, and after teaching musicfor a time at Olivet College, Michigan, he studieduntler Jadassohn and Reinecke of Leipzi
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. were in no wise adapted to one whose thoughtswere for the most part devoted to the harmony ofsounds, and whose chief ambition in life was to be-come a thoroughly educated composer. He ac-cordingly placed himself under the instruction ofthe well known teachers, Eugene Thayer, S. and Dudley Buck, and after teaching musicfor a time at Olivet College, Michigan, he studieduntler Jadassohn and Reinecke of Leipzig, andRheinberger of Munich, and also acquired a knowl-edge of conducting from .^bel. \Vhile a student inLeipzig he composed, and was honored with apublic performance of his Rip Van Winkle Over-ture, which was heard for the first time in .Americaat a concert of the Harvard Musical Association,and on his return to Boston in 1880, it was repeatedat the Handel and Ilaydn Festival, conducted byits composer. Shortly after his return he was ap-pointed Instructor of Harmony and Composition atthe New England Conservatory of Music, and in1897 he succeeded Carl Faeltou in the Director-. GEORGE W. CHAIiWICK the Orpheus and St. Botolph Clubs. Vale con-ferred upon him the honorary degree of Master ofArts in 1897. HILL, George Edwin Yale 1887, i8gi. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1864 ; prepared for College at private school; graduated Yale, 1887; Yale Law School, 1891 ; practised law in Bridgeport, Conn., since i8gi; County Health Officer since 1894. GFORCE EDWIN HILL, Lawyer, was bornin Brooklyn, New York, July 2, 1864, theson of Charles Edwin and Susan Frances (Wilbur)Hill. His paternal ancestors, some of whom werePuritans while others belonged to the Society ofFriends, were early settlers in Massachusetts and UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 463 Maine. His maternal ancestors were RhodeIsland Quaiiers. He was prepared for Collegeat H. U. Kings School for Boys, Stamford, Con-necticut, from
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