Word: knowns
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...Harvard Observatory is situated, trips of a few months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically unexplored...
Professor Baker then described the stages in the theatres and discussed the use of curtains in the performances. Nearly all of the mechanical appliances of modern theatres were known in the days of Shakespeare. Although the stages were bare and were equipped with but little scenery, this very simplicity made the conditions for the dramatist nearly perfect, for everything could be subordinated to the development of a perfect plot...
...Henry Van Dyke D.D. h.'94, of Princeton, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Dr. Van Dyke is professor of English Literature at Princeton University, and is widely known as an author and preacher. He graduated from Princeton in 1873 and has received the degree of doctor of divinity successively from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Dr. Van Dyke is a trustee of Princeton and for many years has been a preacher in Appleton Chapel...
...from Princeton in 1884, and was given an honorary degree by Harvard in 1894. For several years he has been a regular preacher in Appleton Chapel, and this year will conduct the services next Sunday and the Sunday following. As an author Dr. Van Dyke is very well known by such books as "The Blue Flower,' "Fisherman's Luck," and "The First Christmas Tree...
...little sketch called "A Maker of Monuments" is written with such sympathetic tenderness that we feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that...