Word: fathers
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...scene of "Le Menteur" is the Tuileries in Paris; the time, the seventeenth century. The action of the play centers about the character of Dorante, a young man who has recently returned to Paris from school in Poitiers. Geronte, father of Dorante, is anxious to have his son marry Clarice. The young lady is not unwilling, but would like to see her suitor before deciding. She is loved by Alcippe, but their marriage being constantly delayed by his father, who finds no time to come to the ceremony, she is willing to accept another suitor. Isabelle proposes...
Dorante meets Clarice, but thinks at the time that he is speaking to Lucrece, and he declares his love to her. When urged to explain the story of his supposed marriage, he says that it was only a skilful way of avoiding a marriage proposed by his father, for he loves Lucrece and will marry no one else. Clarice is satisfied that all the love-talk of Dorante is addressed to Lucrece, but tells her friend to beware of the deceiver...
...Infirmary was opened at the beginning of the College year. It has so far accommodated eighteen patients. Eight of these have been surgical, half of which have required operation. One man might have lost his life if it had not been for the Stillman Infirmary, and the father of the patient has written a letter of warmest appreciation, in which he says: "If anything were needed to completely cement my attachment to Harvard, this furnishes it." Of the medical cases the most serious is one of typhoid fever. He is doing very well, however...
...cordial relations which have existed for many years past between Siam and the United States and especially Harvard University. The Prince was given an opportunity to see a part of the Harvard Oriental collection, including a beautiful memorial edition of the Buddhist Bible presented to the University by the father the Prince, the present King, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne...
James H. Bell '94 died at the house of his father, Dr. James B. Bell, 178 Commonwealth avenue, Boston, on July 3, 1902. He had been confined to the house for about two weeks and the immediate cause of his death was a surgical operation from which he did not have the strength to recover. While in College, Bell was a member of the Glee Club, Institute of 1770, Hasty Pudding and other societies...