Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fogg was the hero of the third winter meeting, winning in all four cups. Two were for breaking records, and the other two for the running high jump, and running high kick...
...some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which the flames almost seemed to envelop was extraordinary; it is only a wonder that the bon-fire had not served as a funeral pile for these rash youths. Balch, the anchor of the tug-of-war team, was the hero of the hour; again and again he was carried around the fire on the shoulders of his exultant classmen. The presence of the army of proctors and their redoubtable general was the only thing needed to add zest to the whole affair. It was doubtless the failure of his part...
...Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number of indispensable personages. It is noticeable, however, that there are no purely comic scenes in the play,-as if the poet felt that the subject was too harrowing...
...autocrat, and that it is his privilege to stand up for these principles, to fight for them, to suffer for them, like Cromwell or Sir John Eliot. He is the impersonation of the noble side of Puritanism; he lacks only its religious bigotry. He is the true hero of the poem even in Milton's mind, shocked as the poet would have been at such a thought. He carries our sympathy with him, and we wish for his success even though he be the very Devil himself...
Unfortunately for our prophets honor and fame, however, this year the custom of ages will be given up. For once the proper respect will be paid to the departed great; the birthday of the hero of the American Revolution will be honorably observed. On this day no recitation will be held, the college will be closed, even University 5 will be silent and deserted. The church bells will toll and college prayers will be suspended, in short there will be such a suspension of work and labor that we doubt the probability of having the walks cleaned of snow...