Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public life, there is every opportunity opened to him, just as to his English cousin across the water...
...Einer Muss Heiraten" tells of the complications arising from the love affairs of Luise and her tow cousins, Wilhelm and Jacob Zorn, both young professors at a German university. According to their father's will one of the two must marry their cousin in order to inherit the family estate. Since neither of them is inclined to marry, the toss of a coin destines Jacob to become Luise's husband. Jacob is very bashful and Wilhelm, while aiding him to win his cousin, falls in love with Luise and wins her for himself to Jacob's great delight...
...parts in "Einer Muss Heiraten," the comedy to be presented next month by the Deutscher Verein, will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. All undergraduates may compete. The four characters are those of two professors, their aunt and their young cousin. All men who speak German with any fluency are urged to try for parts...
...event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating programs for the new regime and such a clear and interesting account of what our great cousin across the seas does for her sons, abounds in suggestion for the enrichment of student life here. The photographs used in illustration enforce what the author has to say of the architectural beauties of Oxford, fill the Harvard reader with the ever-renewed regret over our wasted opportunities here...
...rest of the number is ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...