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With the appearance of straws and the beginning of the hegira to Revere Beach, the end of the "legitimate" season in Boston draws toward its close. "The Tavern", at the Tremont, is probably the last of the reputed first-rate productions that we can look for here before next fall, and it is not the sort of play to suffer much from hot weather. The fickle Mr. Cohan, who sometimes make us suspect that he is as good a publicity agent as he is actor, author and producer, has broken his vow of theatrical chastity again and honored Boston with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/17/1922 | See Source »

...draw exceptional local material away from those points of which it is more interpretive, but is rather interested in securing typical material and that relating to the larger inter-state and national fields, such as material for the study of the development of western transportation and the great hegira of the Fortyniners. On the other hand, hundreds of Harvard men possess material of local interest with which they would part only in favor of their alma mater. It is of consequence that such men should be appealed to from the Harvard standpoint, and that the material they possess should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMISSION ON WESTERN HISTORY | 2/26/1914 | See Source »

...Khosrau Ben Kbalid" by Mr. A. H. Williams, is a narrative of the sixth century of the Hegira and of Omar of Naishapur, the Tent-maker or Khayaw "as men style him all over the world." It is capitally written and is a thoroughly consistent development along one line. Yet, while grauting the article due praise as an achievement, one must confess that it is rather heavy and involved-a defect inseparable perhaps from a consistent treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 12/8/1890 | See Source »

PRIOR to the twelfth hegira all the good and evil in the world had been attributed to four causes, Material (good), Formal (good), Efficient (bad), Final (very bad), first formulated by the great Stagirite. ???en ???thre came a new man, who said that there were not enough, and added a fifth, the Lost Cause (worst of all). This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONDITIONED. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

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