Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell, President Maclaurin of Technology, Governor McCall, and Senator H. C. Lodge '71 will be the speakers in the dedication exercises in the Great Court of the new buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today at 2.30 o'clock. The remainder of the day's program includes the graduation exercises of the class of 1916 in Huntington Hall at 11 o'clock, departmental luncheons at the Somerset, at noon, and a banquet in Symphony Hall, where demonstrations of transcontinental telephone service and of other achievements of modern science will be made...
Some of the dimensions are impressive. The Court of Honor, where the exercises and the masque are to be held is 360 feet square and the smaller ones 165 feet square. The library is crowned by a dome similar to that of the Pantheon in Rome, which rises 180 feet above the court or nearly 200 feet above the river...
...University match at New Haven Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 played the best tennis and defeated Captain Weber, of Yale, in straight sets with his fast net game and powerful back court drives. In the doubles, however, Williams's superiority was not sufficient to decide the contest, Weber and Stoddard defeating the University captain and J. S. Pfaffmann '17. Stoddard of Yale won the only other match for his team from G. C. Caner...
...Noyes declared that "Hamlet was not mad, nor was he pretending to be mad; he was putting on the disposition of the Fool in order to strike at the insincerity and unreality of the world about him. Hamlet derived his disposition from his former friend, Yorrick, the court jester, which friendship is emphasized and illustrated in the play by Hamlet's sad reminiscences in the grave-digger's scene...
...With the sole exception of Hamlet, no other character in all of Shakspere's plays, who does not definitely take the part of a Fool, wears trappings, which were a part of the conventional garb of the Court Fool," declared Mr. Noyes. "This and numerous other instances throughout the play lead me to believe that Shakspere meant to typify in Harlet the 'Wise Fool' of the early English courts at his greatest point of development...