Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difference between Harvard of today and Harvard in the sixties is simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over...
...bring about this development. On Tuesday the class will be supplied with Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirate" which will be used as a text book. At the close of the lessons if the men in the course so desire the opera will be given publicly; either after the fashion of an oritorio, or by securing a number of public singers to fill the leading places...
...seating capacity of Sanders Theatre last night was a marked compliment to the distinguished scholar and historian who addressed it. The lecture of the evening was an intellingent, scholarly, and extremely interesting survey of the early Western campaign and brought into relief in a vivid, instructive, though necessarily brief fashion, the personalities of the principal military leaders on both sides. Dr. Fiske held the close attention of his hearers to the end, and all who were present will await with great interest the subsequent lecutures...
...appropriate dance. Then four musicians will enter and dance to the accompaniment of their inharmonious musical instruments. Finally the watchmen and musicians will join in a merry dance. The Moorish-girls who will dance at the end of the second act will be dressed after the luxurious Egyptian fashion. They will execute an entrancing Moorish dance prepared by V. Munro...
...becoming more and more the fashion for play wrights to publish their works in book form, and thus to protest against being regarded as outside the domain of pure literature. Mr. Pinero and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones have already vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...