Word: apts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hard to find the merit by which the cover sketch deserves its place. The first-page drawing is a little better, showing some individuality of style. There are several minor sketches, on the other hand, especially one in regard to the Pump, which are apt and amusing...
...extensive repertoire of Labiche is almost all one great satire on "bourgeoisie" life in France. His works have for several generations furnished a healthy hilarity for the French theatre goer. In creating gaiety and laughter for this audience, Labiche followed Rabelais more than Moliere, who was apt to censure the vices of his time in thoughtful and didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often...
...these new days of the twentieth century men are too apt, like the old Galilean fishermen, to live in the shallows of life. There is a tendency to superficiality in literature, in men's ideas of life and its meaning and in their conception of religion. As the words Jesus rang out over the blue waters of Galile, so they echo down through the ages to men today--"launch out into the deep!" For men to taste the fullness of life and its opportunities, to know the serene and awful depths of the ocean of the spirit of God this...
...literature of recent times. The first two essays discuss the Romantic movement in England led by Byron and Shelley, and the subsequent reaction against the passionate individualism of their school. The several essays in which Professor Gates treats the work of single authors are extremely thorough and very apt in expression. The analysis of Poe's employment of terror in his stories is the most striking and effective of Professor Gates's criticisms on the work of individual authors...
Until 1870 the boat houses used were mere sheds, of private ownership. The sheds were unsafe and unsubstantial, since the ice was apt to carry them away in winter, making them dangerous to keep boats in. It was decided that some improvement was necessary and in 1869 the plans for the present boat house were drawn up. The plans called for $7000, about $4000 of which was raised by subscriptions, baseball games, and amateur theatricals. It was completed in 1869. After the house was finished the University Boat Club, which built it, found it impossible to raise the remainder...