Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past that we know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like the visions in Macbeth who "come like shadows, so depart." The best criticism n acting that has come down to us, is the one that Fielding gives us in "Tom Jones," when Partridge sees Garrick at the play...
...Brewer shows in advising quiet acquiescence in the vote of the Faculty, on the ground that age is wise and youth is foolish, is a new and strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life of the sport of football makes it desirable that all the friends of the game, - among whom the undergraduates are the most compact and enthusiastic body, - should fight for the game sturdily and without yielding, even if the growth of this seemly undergraduate modesty be checked...
Poetry is the endeavor of a man to give expression to that which is best within himself. The beautiful, it has been said, is greater than the good because it includes the good. We come nearest to the beautiful in poetry, indeed the test of poetry is its beauty. The neglect of poetry, and the consequent failure to appreciate the beautiful in art, not only deprives one of the most pleasurable of intellectual resources, but dulls the moral sensibility, and robs the character of its beauty and dignity. On the other hand a love for poetry transforms a man from...
...different forms of the Anglican, Roman, Greek, and Protestant churches. But the Christianity of Christ can be best learned from study of the New Testament - not only the four gospels, but all the rest as well, for Christ did not fully reveal in person all the truths which have come to the world through him, but said himself to his disciples, "when the Holy Spirit is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Owing to a severe blister on Hollister's hand, he did not row yesterday and will be obliged to lay off for some days to come. His absence necessitated a complete shaking up of yesterday's crew. Lewis proved unsatisfactory at stroke so R. H. Stevenson was placed there. Perkins rowed No. 7; Shepard, 6; Jennings, 5; Watriss, 4; Lewis, 3; Fennessy, 2; Bullard...