Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Francis Hathaway Cummings '95, died at Dublin, N. H., on September 19, 1897. While in college his kindly sympathy endeared him to many, and a long sickness beginning before graduation, did not interrupt his friendships or lessen his cheerfulness...
...have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even the romantic drama. Even these devices, however, do not remove the bar that separates Shakespeare and the average man of today. The fact that his plays are written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers...
Will you allow me to say, in answer to your correspondent of today, that the Day of Prayer for Colleges has been for years observed with sympathy at this University. We do not interrupt the regular duties, or-as in some colleges-make the day a holiday, but on Thursday next, both at morning prayers and at the afternoon Vesper Service, there will be special reference to the day and its associations. I have no doubt that the Christian Association also, at its meeting at 6.45 p. m., on Thursday, will, as usual, keep...
...system? A consideration of these questions forces the conclusion that the present system of mid-year examinations is far from satisfactory. It seems clear that something ought to be done. Either they ought to be abolished altogether, or else some plan should be devised by which they would not interrupt the year's work for three weeks nor give an opportunity for men to cram down the requirements of over three month's work in as many days...
...others in settling down to the serious work of life is an open one. It is true that loyalty and the pressing call of undergraduates often draw them back, and we shall ever be grateful beyond measure to them for coming back. But beyond the fact that this may interrupt the course of their business we do not think, judging from our own college past athletics that this difficulty of settling down to the serious work of life is so great, or that the interruption to their business is, in most cases, disastrous...