Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should be educated and should understand the sciences and the art of government. Today professors explain and comment on existing affairs in a way which fifty years ago would have cost them their chairs...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...
...Copeland will speak this evening on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Ford, and other Elizabethan dramatists. The lecture-which will be an attempt to compare Shakespeare with lesser Elizabethans-will include comment on performances, an anecdote or two of well-known players, and reading from "Macbeth," "The Duchess of Malfi," and a "Woman Killed with Kindness...
Yesterday the University Catalogue for '93-'94 made its appearance. There are comparatively few changes beyond those incident to another year's growth. The facts published in another column are so explicitly stated and speak so plainly for themselves that they need little comment or explanation here. We can only add a word or two on the general tendencies which the figures and facts presented reveal. The first thing that suggests itself is the marked growth of the university spirit as opposed to the simple college spirit. Everything in the catalogue points to the gradual reaching out of the Harvard...
...opening of the season, the service will be almost entirely musical. The choir of St. Paul's Church, Boston, will assist the chapel choir in rendering Garrett's Harvest Cantata. To all students who have been in the University before this year these services need no word of comment. To new comers among us it may be interesting to know that the services are held every Thursday during term time through the winter. They are purposely made short and simple in character and are not intended to be strict services of worship, but rather to serve as pleasant breaks...