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...poets have been out-doors a good deal, chiefly at night. They have seen the moon, and one of them has clutched at it. They have observed the sea, and one of them has found it loving, fickle, faithless, wanton, cruel, bitter. They have noted sundry meteorological phenomena, and recorded them in lines that, to quote one of the salt water singers, "Dance on in wild unrythmic glee...

Author: By F. SCHENCK ., | Title: REVIEWER FOUND ADVOCATE WELL-WRITTEN BUT UNTIMELY | 10/9/1915 | See Source »

...people choose. Then the provision was added to this bill that the state legislators must pledge themselves absolutely to support or ignore the agitation for direct election of United States senators. The next move was to establish the recall, so that the people could discharge those officers who proved faithless to their trust. Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries, the people forced the unwilling legislature to pass a genuine corrupt practices act, which is so severe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROBLEM IN GOVERNMENT" | 3/15/1911 | See Source »

...more satisfying way of life, there is no greater joy, than to be at one in spirit and purpose with him and with the great company of loyal and loving souls who gratefully acknowledge his inspiration and guidance and to set before ourselves any meaner ideal is to be faithless to our grandest possibilities

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/15/1908 | See Source »

...murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Agamemnon of Aeschylus" | 6/12/1906 | See Source »

...cast: Hi-Ka-Ya, of Spoodingevic, H. L. Movius '02 Aurora, his daughter, S. Waller '03 A-Mi-Yi, a faithless subject, G. S. Barton '03 Professor Lasher, a geologist, M. W. Ware '02 Paul Revere Hall, a sportive pupil, H. L. Riker '03 Obadiah Ham, an unmitigated grind, J. A. Dix '02 "Con," a famous "bookey" of Sheepshead, C. S. Sargent '02 Bella Sheepshead, as her name implies, W. S. Godfrey '03 Judge, for yourself, C. Platt, 3d, '02 Reggie, a young light of New York, W. Wadsworth '02 "A Reub," D. Gregg '02 Ludwig Fitzundstarts, F. Burgess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. P. C. Play. | 4/25/1902 | See Source »

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