Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which will furnish entertainment during the summer. Miss Eissing, the prima donna, will be well remembered in "Girofle-Girofla," "Ali Baba," and "Sinbad." Miss Mulle-Bell, Miss Gaillard, Miss Rissi, Mr. Wolff, Mr. Seamans, Mr. McWade and Mr. Edgar Seamans, are all comic opera artists of more or less fame...
...athletics, the undergraduate has been deceived into thinking, or rather into acting as if he thought, that the athlete alone is deserving of the popularity which puts a man's name in every body's mouth. It is proper that the athlete should enjoy a certain measure of collegiate fame, but it is far from proper that he should hold so nearly a monopoly of it as he does today. Such prominence as is now the reward of success in athletics is harmful both to him who receives it and to those who accord it to him. It tends...
...however, ready to admit that intellectual achievement passes wholly without recognition here, nor is the assertion likely to be made by anyone familiar with the conditions of Harvard life. It is true that the fame of the debater, or of the literary or scientific man, is not as the fame of the football hero; yet while neither may have a place in the undergraduate's enthusiasms, each is awarded a share in his respect which is denied to the mere athlete. Football, baseball, any of the sports, is more exciting and attracts a more intense interest than can fairly...
...death of Professor Dana during vacation has occasioned profound sorrow throughout the University. He was the last representative of the "old guard" of great scholars and still greater teachers, who rendered the first contributions to Yale's fame as an institution of learning. He was universally loved as well as respected, and though he was very old, yet every one was shocked to hear of his sudden death. He continued his writings up to the very last...
...first theatre in London was established in 1576, and up to 1600 the number rapidly increased. Theatres became immensely popular. The great opening in literature was the Drama, and the young man who aspired to literary fame turned his mind to writing plays...