Word: elizabethan
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...Eight More Harvard Poets". After declaring that of course "there is nothing in the book approaching the fire and genius of the Benets of Yale", he enters into a charming digression which explains, from his point of view, the manifest superiority of Yale literature. The scene is the Elizabethan Club after the Harvard-Yale game...
...with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call it, is a favorite device in this play, and it is used to the full delight...
...real object of pity, however, is the undergraduate who, after planning a splendid course for his last year as an undergraduate picks up the Announcement of Courses and finds that of his chosen four, three are to be omitted. Accordingly, despite a special interest in "Banking" or "Elizabethan Drama", in order to fill out his concentration, he is forced to take "Pope" or "Advanced Railroading...
...what turn the language will take next. Perhaps the rest of the country will follow the example of the people in a small, secluded New Hampshire village where alone W. L. George found correct pronunciation, and with them adopt once more old with them adopt once more old Elizabethan wages...
...Harvard students works of art representing the most significant periods of artistic activity in the world's history. It seems as if something in the nature of a powerful electric current has charged certain parts of the world with excessive vitality at different times which found its expression in Elizabethan England in the form of literature, in Germany in the form of music, and in Greece, France Italy and elsewhere in the form of architecture, sculpture and painting. The Fogg Museum Meleager, one of the finest original Greek statues in America, is an example of the abundant power and sense...