Word: latter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first scene between Peithetaerus and Prometheus was skilfully done; Prometheus has stolen down from the realm of Zeus, and his attempts to hide himself from the latter's sight under a huge umbrella called out much laughter. In the second scene the embassy from Zeus appears, and here the haughty Poseidon, the gluttonous Herakles and the barbarian Triballos were well portrayed by the respective actors...
...play takes place in Von Sommer's apartments in a small garrison town. Von Sommer and Illy are in love, a matter of which Steffen knows nothing. Neumann and Lieschen are also in love with each other, but the latter's father, Peters, has objected to the match for a long while; finally, however, he sends Neumann a letter, in which he signifies his intention of visiting him. Neumann, who lives in the barracks, asks Von Sommer to lend him his rooms to receive Peters. The request is granted, and this leads to many complications, in which both young...
...were ordered this year by the Athletic Association, two to be built by Robinson, the English boat-builder, and one by Davy. Robinson has been working here five months, and in that time he has completed one of the shells ordered. He will have the other finished by the latter part of May. The measurements of the 1899 University boat were followed in building these shells, and they are of medium weight and rather stiff. Robinson has also done much work repairing and rigging old boats, and has built one single shell. Davy has just started work on the eight...
...golf team played its first match of the season on Saturday, defeating the team of the Wollaston Golf Club on the latter's links by a score...
...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...