Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lord is not free from blame. The most dramatic scene of the play is that in which Cassandra before the palace doors vividly foresees the fate that awaits both herself and Agamemnon within. She is helpless, however, to avert the terrible tragedy. After she enters the doors, the death cries of the king are heard from within, and the masterful queen is seen exulting over the two murdered bodies. She then quiets Aegisthus, whom she saves from the Argives...
...words reach the ear. Sganarelle's daughter is sick of love for her Clitandre. Her dull old father is too stupid to see the only cure. Wiser is the daughter's companion, the sage Lisette--wise beyond her years. She tells slow-witted Sganarelle that it will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic...
...then returned to study in the Law School, receiving the degree of L. LB. in 1861. He was an officer or director in many educational, business and philanthropic institutions, and his liberality has made possible many of Worcester's public buildings and parks. At the time of his death he was president of the Harvard Club of that city...
...College Library has just received an interesting and valuable memorial of the first school teacher in Cambridge, Elijah Corlet. This is a broadside sheet on which is printed "An Elegiack Verse on the Death of the Pious and Profound Rhetorician and Grammarian, Mr. Elijah Corlet, School Master in Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. February 24, 1687." The lines, which have small poetical merit, were written by Nehemiah Walter, a graduate of the College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate...
...evening in Tremont Temple, under the auspices of the Victorian Club, there were address by the following men in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar; Professor F. C. de Sumichrast, President of the Victorian Club, who compared England's situation 100 years ago with that of today; Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N. L.L.D., who spoke about Nelson's distinct individuality; Sir E. H. Seymour, G. C. B.; Commander Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy; and Surgeon-General Baron S. Suzuki, who told about the battle of Japan...