Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play is a satire of modern life, depicting the social career of Mrs. Alexander-Smith of Breezeboro, Michigan, first at Newport and later in Boston society...
Owing to the unfortunate career of the old Council, the average undergraduate does not place any great confidence in such organizations. This renders it especially needful for a new Council to start with the full approbation and support of the entire student body. The new plan, owing to several obvious defects in its constitution and, also, to the fact that there is no provision for adequate ratification, will not have the confidence of the students...
...George Riddle '74, instructor in elocution at the University from 1878 to 1881, died suddenly on Saturday morning at the Boston Relief hospital. He was born in Charlestown, September 22, 1851, and was graduated from the College with the class of 1874. Mr. Riddle began his public career as a reader of Shakspere, but in 1875 he turned to the stage. During the spring of 1876 he acted in New York with Edwin Booth. In the celebrated production of Sophocles' Oedipus in 1881, given in the original Greek by members of the University, he took the part of Oedipus...
...greatest enjoyment and influence came from his writings. For ten years before his death he taught either not at all or but a single course, and in 1907 he resigned his professorship in order to devote to writing whatever strength his ever weakening heart allowed. Throughout his academic career, with characteristic courage, he put out a series of papers filled with large learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness and pungency that he was able...
...mourned by thousands, and respected by the leaders of the nation; and to have his life story told by so sympathetic a biographer as Mr. Brooks, was a lot which the most ambitious might entry. If every the force of right principle was demonstrated, it was though Baldwin's career...