Word: contrivedness
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The Second Winter Meeting was as creditable to the able management of the H. A. A. as was the meeting a week ago. The feather-weight sparring was extremely interesting, and so was the light-weight contest. But we wish that a little more "science" had been displayed in the...
"The recent production of the "Birds" of Aristophanes was regarded by the committee as rather a hazardous undertaking, for although Greek tragedy has now abundantly proved its power over modern audiences, it was thought very doubtful if the old comedy was equally suitable for revival. And, notwithstanding the brilliant success...
The superior of the Convent of Notre Dame at St. Albans, Vt., says the Woman's Journal, is thinking of introducing a system of gymnastics contrived by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard, which is undoubtedly the best in use.
Another diarist gives us a glimpse of class day of 1829, when Holmes was poet; "1829, July 14, Tuesday. - At ten I was in University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the senior class. Oration by Devereaux of Salem; poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this...
The latest sensation created by Bernhardt abroad is that she has contrived her marriage so that its validity may well be questioned, and so that no formal decree of divorce will ever be needed to legally separate herself from the Greek.