Word: grief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among casualties of the war is listed compulsory Greek at Cambridge--and it is a casualty that causes grief in England. The University Senate has been empowered to remit the study in the case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...
...recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical Broadway monologist...
...destroyed. My unfortunate colleague, who still enjoyed a vigorous physique, who was only 53 years old, large and strong, who had always worked with the strength of iron,--could not survive the terrible catastrophe. Two months ago he died in Cambridge, England, of a malady caused by the grief and fears which the war had brought him. The fire of August 26 had lost for service the new work which Professor Van Gehucten had prepared in the full maturity of his knowledge, and the future accomplishments which this energetic and persevering worker might have produced in the future...
...Patterson, the strike-leader, impelled by want to attempt burglary, is surprised and captured by the manufacturer, whose house he has entered. There follows a scene in which the strike-leader, having unmasked himself, gives voice to the wrongs and miseries of the wage-earners, and finally in grief and despair, yields to arrest. It is a one-part play, and N. R. Sturgis '12, as Joe Patterson, was fully equal to the part. His depth of feeling, self-command, and magnetic stage-presence, held the close attention of the audience throughout...