Word: landed
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...verse, Mr. Pulsifer's "Palace of Heart's Desire" is distinctly the best in conception and expression. "The West Today is a dithyramb, and rises at moments to dithyrambic unintelligibility, as in the first line, "Land that the lakes have brided." The lingling anapests of "Morituri Salutamus" seem fitter to "Here's a health to King Charles" than to the bleeding and tearful gladiator. "Jealousy" is an aptly turned conceit in four lines; and "Will of the Wisp" has a good second stanza...
...candidates for parts in the "Promised Land," the play by A. Davis '07 to be produced by the Dramatic Club in December, should report at Stoughton. 2 between 4 and 6.30 o'clock this afternoon. The competition is open to all members of the University...
...play selected by the Dramatic Club for its initial performance is "The Promised Land," a four act drama, by A. Davis '07, of Pittsburg, Pa. The final selection was made by a graduate committee consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Winthrop Ames '95, director of the New Theatre in New York City, and H. T. Parker, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. "The Promised Land" was chosen out of six plays referred to the committee. It was written for English 47, Professor Baker's course on the "Technique of the Drama...
...hampered by lack of money, due to the indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against him. The tragedy of his defeat is enhanced by his enforced separation from the woman he loves, who is a Christian and, for that reason...
...last ten lectures are devoted to the German civil code: 6--Fundamental principles; 7--Select topics and cases; 8--Law of persons; 9--Juristic acts and their validity; 10--Contracts; 11--Torts; 12--Law of real and personal property; 13--Registration of land (Torrens system; 14--Domestic relations; 15--Inheritance...