Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Following is a list of some of Harvard's famous graduates in the last eighty years with the numbers of rooms in Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton and Massachusetts, which they occupied during their courses at college...
...Newton, curate of the parish, in 1773 his malady again returned and through his long illness of two years he was attended by Mrs. Unwin with the most affectionate care. To beguile the tedium of his recovery, he occupied himself with carpentry and gardening, and in domesticating his famous hares. Slowly his faculties became composed, and at the age of fifty they were back with all their grace. He recommenced writing letters to his friends, and their publication has given to us some most beautiful English prose, in their thousand graces of style and meaning...
...much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper broke away more completely than Wadsworth from the old poetic diction, but he did not realize he was doing something new. Later he took to translating Homer but met with no success...
...that it seems fitting to call attention of the students to the first performance to-night. It is largely through the efforts of Harvard men that this work has been undertaken. As stated already the ultimate object is to establish a standard theatre, where plays written by the most famous American authors can be put on the stage for the public without undergoing the savage overhauling and distortions of unliterary managers. In other countries the works of the greatest literary geniuses are produced with great success. Theatrical managers here maintain that the public would not tolerate the plays...
...during the second half-year. The second meeting will be held in Sever 11, on Friday, March 10, at 3.30 p. m. A great variety of authors, ranging chronologically from Shakespeare to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, will be discussed and read from; and novels and plays - with some account of famous modern performances - will make a large proportion of the course. Meetings are to be held once a week; and the hour will be divided between reading aloud, and informal speaking by the instructor. Only good readers will be allowed to read, but good listeners will be thought not the least...