Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Colonel Winslow believes that the bat should be grasped by the right hand as though the bat was to be swung by that hand alone. The left hand is merely to direct, while all the force of the blow should come from the right hand. The first principle of this system is that there shall be no swinging of the bat. The arms must be straightened at the same instant the step forward to meet the ball is taken. The ball ought to be met in front of the base and the bat should always be parallel to the ground...
...character can not safely be trusted to any one less interested in him or less intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best get at home, is the foundation of ideal on which his life is to be built, and on the strength of which depends not only...
Night was falling as Dante and Vergil entered the infernal regions, but Easter morning is breaking as they come forth into the bright light of Purgatory, out from the darkness of Hell into the light of Heaven. When Dante looked about he saw near him a venerable man, who revealed himself as Cato the Warden of the souls that enter Purgatory...
...poets pass on along the other ledges of sin, wrath, avarice, sluggishness, and lust. They meet on the way several former companions of Dante. Mark after mark is removed from Dante's brow, and at length they also come forth into the brilliant light of the Earthly Paradise. Here Virgil bids Dante farewell, who while mourning for his guide is consoled by the appearance of Beatrice...
When Proserpina comes on the stage, Cupid wounds her with his dart, Pluto at once declares his love, and as he expected finds it requited. Ceres, Exemplicus and the chorus then come in, all ready for the wedding of Proserpina and Exemplicus. Proserpina tells her mother that she has just captured a prince whereupon Ceres, overjoyed, deserts the cause of Exemplicus and consents that the marriage shall take place at once in Pluto's kingdom of Hades...