Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...breath. The next great Hamlets of the past that we know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like the visions in Macbeth who "come like shadows, so depart." The best criticism n acting that has come down to us, is the one that Fielding gives us in "Tom Jones," when Partridge sees Garrick at the play...
...said that the sight of a beloved face in the audience used to inspire Booth, and put new warmth into his acting. He was by nature of the classic school, and he fell naturally into the poses, which caused many people to think of him as cold and statue like. In Mr. Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius...
...LAST STRAW."It is claimed that the [Harvard] Faculty became gradually more and more disgusted when they saw that the alumni of a great university like Yale could not have an annual gathering without devoting every speech to an athletic sport, to the absolute exclusion of all reference to their alma mater as an institution of learning. This feeling had become very strong when, at the meeting four weeks ago, an incident happened which was the last straw...
...intention of the organizers of the college conferences to hold periodical meetings at which matters of interest to the college at large can be freely and calmly discussed. The meetings of these conferences will be attended by students and Faculty alike. It is intended to be something like the late Amherst senate...
...upland has been worn to its present condition by the great glaciers which spread over all New England, covering even the highest peaks of the White Mountains. The lowlands, like the valley of the Connecticut River, have been dug out to a lower level because they were formed of soft material. There still exist in New England many traces of the ice period such as the rounded rocks of the mountain tops, and the large boulders found everywhere...