Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Moliere, said he, was in the XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world...
...provincial actor. The hardships which he had to undergo embittered him, and this very bitterness taught him to reflect. These twelve years were of incalculable benefit to Moliere, for in them he thoroughly mastered his profession of writer and comedian. His view was greatly broadened. Whereas other writers like Boileau, Feuillet, Bourget and Dumas fils, treat only of Parisian scenes and characters, Moliere by his extensive travel and wide observation was enabled to portray, with a striking reality, the life and the characters of the provinces. Many of his scenes and characters can be localized in some part of provincial...
...been steadily and conscientiously practicing, and they have had to master the principles of the short-suit and the longsuit game, since it is impossible to tell which attack the Yale men will adopt. Although a whist match is not an occasion to arouse very great enthusiasm, we should like Harvard's representatives to feel that they have the best wishes of the University for their success tonight...
Since last Friday there has been more or less discussion throughout the University as to the reasons for our defeat at the hands of Yale. Many men, like Mr. Warren in this morning's CRIMSON, have spoken up honestly, acknowledged our defeat, and sought the cause in our own defects. But I have also heard many who have tried in one way or another to excuse the result. There has been a tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence...
...value of an occasion like that of last night's class dinner can not be overestimated, provided the members of the class take its lesson to heart and try hereafter to work together. As Mr. Roosevelt said last year at the mass meeting in Sanders Theatre, the individual idea of every man for himself is now far too prevalent at Harvard. Although this is largely due to the incresed size of the University and to the consequent diversity of student interests, if undergraduates are more ready to overcome their individual likes and dislikes and could meet in the spirit...