Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of the play is simple but, for dramatic purposes, extremely effective. Helene (Madame Simone) was forced to marry a repulsive young nobleman in order to gratify her father's social ambitions. After the marriage, she fell in love with Robert de Chaceroy, and when he loses his fortune and his honor by gambling, tries to pay his debts for him. Her father forces the secret of her love from her, and in order to save the reputation of his family offers to advance the necessary sum. He insists on the separation of Robert and Helene; Robert declares this...
What upperclassman after a term or two at Harvard has not been asked by his father, his uncle or some friend of the family, whether he knows Mr. "So and So", the well known Harvard professor? How often has he had to answer evasively, "Oh yes, I know of him," or "I have a course with him, but I don't know him personally." It is indeed perhaps the most unfortunate feature of a large college that it is an impossibility for all the professors to know all the students personally. But admitting this situation is by no means admitting...
...pointed out the foolishness of ever saying that Yale is easy to beat; it is as foolish as saying that it is impossible for Harvard to win. The fact should never be lost sight of that Yale teams have back of them. Walter Camp, the father of American football and perhaps the greatest strategist of the game...
...when he died in the hospital. The remainder of the act tells of Martha's attempts to secure work in the mill in order to see the children, how the foreman and a director think her an investigator and refuse, and how "Skinny" tries to run away from his "father" and live with the "niggers who don't have to work." He has been put at a warping machine which is working very badly and has killed two men the week before, and fear of it spurs...
...father's vision...