Word: heroic
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William Goodell Frost, "Student by nature who availed himself in youth of six different colleges and universities and became at twenty-five Professor of Greek at Oberlin College, since 1893 heroic educational missionary as President of Berea College in Kentucky, an institution which has done and is doing admirable pioneer work for the uplifting of the negroes and of the isolated white population in the valleys of the southern Alleghanies...
This play, which was first acted in 1611, was written mainly as a satire, holding up to ridicule the ranting, heroic plays so much in favor at the time, and the ignorant London burgesses who applauded them. Naturally, its butts condemned it on its first representation, but it was afterwards revived and became a common stage property during the seventeenth century. Later judgment has held it to be one of the most original of the Elizabethan comedies, both in its wit and biting satire upon the time, and its fantastic plot and humorous drawing of character...
...their vessels for the insurance, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression and the drink evil, which find peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk. He has recently been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward VII for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell has already shown himself well fitted to treat his material from the point of interest to college men by his lecture on the same subject at the Union two years...
...years. In the summer he has cruised the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in winter making long tours with his dog-teams. He has recently been made a companion of St. Michael and St. George by the King of England for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell gave this lecture in the Union two years ago, and showed himself peculiarly well-fitted to treat his subject from a point of interest to college...
Last year Mr. Peck spoke on "The Heart of the Rockies and the Yosemite." Tomorrow his lecture will deal with the Life Saving Service and the heroic acts of the surfmen. Mr. Peck has been granted special facilities by the government and the service to make an exhaustive study of the subject...