Word: cleopatra
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...30th of October, 54 A.D., the Emperor Claudius died, and Nero succeeded him at the age of 17 years. The new emperor continued his study of music, grammar, and language, and allowed his mother, Agrippina, to seize control of the state. But she became a Roman Cleopatra, and because of her refusal to spend the public money for pleasure, she became unpopular. Nero was now living a selfish and extravagant life in the midst of riches and pleasures, and is said to have preferred the theatre to the Senate. Agrippina chafed at this and a struggle arose between mother...
...Herrick '90; "Prophetic Voices about America," by W. G. Brown '91; "Music--Education and 'Automatics'," by L. R. Lewis '88; "On being Original," by I. Babbitt '89; "The Glory that was Spain," by J. B. Fletcher '87; "Edmund Clarence Stedman," by T. W. Higginson '41; "The Variorum Antony and Cleopatra," by W. A. Neilson...
...poems is satisfactory. In Mr. H. E. Porter's "Horace's Garden," we find marble statues keeping guard against the snares of wind and rain, and silence muffling a landscape with a counterpane,--figures too metaphysical to be happy. Mr. R. J. Walsh's "The Death of Cleopatra" has gained a prize as a translation from Horace. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Odalisque," clear in thought, admirable in melody, worthily maintains the standard of "Advocate" verse...
...presented to the University by Alanson Tucker '72 of Boston, in honor of his father, William Warren Tucker h.'61. The figure, which is seated, is of white Roman marble, and is the work of the late William Wetmore Story '38, well known for his allegorical statues "Medea" and "Cleopatra...