Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Compelled to flee from the scene of his wild career, he takes refuges with the mountain trolls, but fearing to commit himself forever to their fantastic life, returns to his own people. From them his failings cause him to be exiled. He returns, however, in time to witness the death of his mother, after which he starts on a romantic quest after authority and empire. Next, Peer Gynt appears as a fabulously rich merchant prince, and his wanderings in several climes are portrayed, but his worldly life is not sufficient to blot out the old Peer Gynt. Finally, he returns...
...this closing scene, Grieg has written the accompaniment, "Morgenstimmung," "Anitras Tanz," another of the "Peer Gynt Suite" represents the dance of a bewitching Arabian girl whom Peer sees in the course of his wanderings, "Aases Tod" is the scene at the death-bed of Peer's mother...
Attention is called to the report of the Dean of the College on the extraordinarily low death rate among the students of the College. In 1895-96, four died out of 1772; in 1896-97, four out of 1754; in 1897-98, four out of 1819; and in 1898-99, three out of 1851. In concluding, the President remarks: "These facts tend to show that college students are in reality a picked body of youth physically, as well as mentally and morally...
Professor Kuno Francke will deliver two lectures at Cornell University on February 7 and 8, entitled "Durer's Biblical Illustrations," and "Holbein's Dance of Death." These two are a part of the larger series of Lectures which Professor Francke gave last year at Harvard and at Johns Hopkins University...
...many famous members of which were Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, and Dr. S. F. Smith, the author of "America." According to agreement, the book remained in the hands of the late Rev. Samuel May, the first and only secretary of the class, until his death, and was then handed over to the Library. It is remarkable for the completeness of the class records, consisting of biographies, photographs, newspaper clippings and letters from one classmate to another, which were added from time to time during seventy years, as the class was noted for its cordiality...