Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most part, sympathetic. The second act showed substantial improvement. The actors were more at home in their parts, the lines were read better, and the wit of the dialogue more frequently crossed the footlights. The gradual rise in tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which is one of the most marked features of the play, became distinctly perceptible. This improvement was sustained through the third act. Here a number of minor characters make their appearance, and the scene of the reception for Lord Ravensbane, falling, as it did, within the range of what may fairly...
...following subjects for theses are proposed by the Committee of Award: (1) "The Proverbial Philosophy of Plato"; (2) "The Expression of Pathos in Homer"; (3) "The Dramatic Element in Thucydides"; (4) "Lucian as an Art Critic"; (5) "The Oresteia of Aeschylus, as illustrated by Greek Vase-Painting"; (6) "The Art of Menander, with a study of his influence on Roman Comedy"; (7) "Funeral Rites in Greek Poetry and Art of the Fifth Century, with a study of their inner significance"; (8) "The Relation of the Idylls of Theocritus to the Hellenistic Reliefs...
...officers of the Junior class have made unusual and very commendable efforts to have the election today a record-breaking one in point of votes. In some respects the Junior and Sophomore years are "off years," or at least they have had that reputation in other classes. The element of newness that pervades the elections in Freshman year, and the finality that attends Senior elections, are both lacking...
...United States, as a coaling station in the east was a necessity at that time; but eventually the islands would have applied for admittance to the Union on account of the prevailing preference for the United States instead of Japan. The Japanese, however, form by far the largest element of the population there being 70,000 of them, mostly laborers, on the islands. They far outnumber all other classes put together...
...Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that some change in the requirements which would establish either three years or four years as the normal period for the attainment of the bachelor's degree would be preferable to the present state of confusion in which the valuable element of class unity is so largely lost...