Word: knowns
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Written by Jonson in 1610, the play satirizes the folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity...
Judge Grant, after graduating from Harvard, took the degree of Ph.D. in 1876 and graduated at the Law School in 1879. He is the author of many well-known books, the last, "Unleavened Bread," being published...
...Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. From 1882 until the past winter he was professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. Dr. Butcher is well known as a writer for his prose translation with Mr. Andrew Lang of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...foremost readers of this country. He was instructor in elocution at Harvard from 1878 to 1881, and appeared as Oedipus Tyrannus in the Greek play given in Sanders Theatre in 1881. He has since given Shakesperian and other readings in the principal American cities, and is well known for his imitations of the accent and mannerisms of leading actors...
...marble statue of Shakespere has been presented to the University by Alanson Tucker '72 of Boston, in honor of his father, William Warren Tucker h.'61. The figure, which is seated, is of white Roman marble, and is the work of the late William Wetmore Story '38, well known for his allegorical statues "Medea" and "Cleopatra...