Word: careers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class of '91, and a citizen of Cleveland, Ohio. Although but twenty-nine years old at the time of his death, Mr. Black had made such a reputation for himself and is so generally mourned, that we can but speak more minutely of a character and a career which offer so much to emulate...
Hardly a man realizes until he comes to know by experience what a truly important point in his college career is his first class dinner. Not until then does he see his class gathered together as a social unit, and many of those to whom such dinners are of the past will bear witness that then for the first time they felt that they were really a part of their class. A class dinner resembles a great athletic victory in its leveling effect, and when men once esteem all others equal with themselves, a lasting impression is the result...
...Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie" were very successful; they were admired for their brightness and their gaiety, and because from one end to the other they were bursting with youth. In his "Spectacle dans un Fauteuil" we find him in the middle of his career; and here appears the sadness of his nature...
President Eliot then made a short address on the life and character of Lincoln, pointing out several lessons to be learned from him by young men. His career warns us aginst a narrow acceptance of the word education. He had no education in the ordinary sense. He saturated himself with the Bible and Shakespeare, which gave him purity and power of language and sentiment, and his early training taught him application, perseverance, and courage. These qualities constituted his education...
...Copeland's lecture yesterday afternoon. This is the first public lecture on Garrick that has ever been given at Harvard. Mr. Copeland, in his introductory remarks, spoke of the present condition of the stage and of the theatre going public, and then at length of Garrick's career, triumphs, acting and unusually complex character. During his first public season, in 1742 at Drury Lane, Garrick performed eighteen different characters, and this versatility marked his entire career until its close in 1776. In his choice of plays he satisfied the romantic longings of the times, without either hastening or retarding...