Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here we have a central figure too great and awe-inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is with great reluctance that I venture to question the action of a prominent and learned professor in his teaching of one of the most popular courses in the college curriculum. I would not deem it right to speak of the matter, if the action of another professor during the first half year in the same course had not been so diametrically opposed to the present method of teaching. The course in English VII. purposes to give those who elect it a view of English literature during the eighteenth century. The plan pursued during the first...
...light of certain circumstances, this action seems very peculiar. The Glee Club and Pierian Sodality are allowed not only to advertise their concerts and the sale of tickets to these, but also to have that sale take place at a store not connected officially with the college. Why such permission should be granted to one club and not to another is what the manager wants to find...
...have called the contrivance known as English grammar absurd, and the study of it a useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their...
...nearing delicate ground, because our position last year was not one calculated to call forth general acclamation. However, there is always that bright beacon - hope-and it really looks now as if we might "take a brace." Our prospective pitcher is Dillon, of '88, who in form and action resembles your old foe, Vinton, more than anyone else I have ever seen. One of the Western college journals says that 'Dartmouth has a phenomenal pitcher.' We do not claim that as yet, but hope for much. The positions of second base, short-stop and left-field will probably be filled...