Word: fall
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...conception, the noblest in design, and the highest in art. Although almost universally associated with the three other great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, it differs from all three in its essential purpose. Hamlet is a play of inaction and indecision; Othello is the story of the down fall of a great soul through jealousy, Macbeth that of a man overcome by ambition. The distinction of "King Lear" lies in the fact that it displays the tragic power of retribution over characters whose faults are commonly regarded as superficial. The stern fate of the king is the result...
...inside among ourselves we may congratulate ourselves for. Beginning in the autumn with discouraging prospects, Captain McBride and his men have worked faithfully and the college has supported them. Never has so large a number of men been in training, not only for the university, but for the various fall teams playing with one another. Never has the ideal college sport, as the outcome and fruition of play at home, been so fully realized. Never has a college been more loyal to its teams in adversity. Never has a team physically weaker more distinguished itself than in tieing Harvard...
Professor Edward C. Pickering's recently issued report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1899, states that, owing to the continued fall in the rate of interest in recent years, the Observatory is in urgent need of additional endowment. A decrease of one per cent. represents a loss in income of $10,000 a year. Thus in 1892 the Observatory received $53,000 income, but in 1898 only $46,000. In the words of the report: "Every few days questions are solved by means of the photographs, which without them must wait years for an equally...
...plot consists of four main incidents--the arrival of Hilda Wangel, the approval of the builder's plans, the death of Knut Brovik, and the fall of Solness. It is incoherent and is, throughout, illogical, almost trivial. The crack in the wall, designedly neglected to cause the death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again...
...meeting held last night of the men prominent in football last fall who will return to College next year, Captain Daly announced that B. H. Dibblee '99 will be the head coach of the football team for the season of 1900. W. C. Forbes '92 and Captain Daly addressed the meeting, giving an outline of the spring practice and of next fall's work...