Word: likes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Birds," by Aristophanes, the last play given under the auspices of the Greek Department, was presented in May, 1901. Next year, however, in "The Libation Pourers," the committee intends to produce a play more like Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus," which was given in 1881 and attracted much favorable comment...
...same field in being concise, clear and interesting. At the same time satisfactory authoritativeness is given to the positions of the author by many and exact references to representative present day combinations. The defect of the work is its brevity: Many of the subjects touched upon we should like to see more exhaustively discussed; especially by an author showing such balance and insight...
...faults alone are here mentioned. The Committees have accomplished much that is good and it is only fair to say that their work has been more successful than that of any of the previous committees. The faults are not great, but they are typical of that unbusiness-like, drifting, lackadaisical policy which, in the absence of other evidence, may be assumed to be partly responsible for the Union's failure to fulfill all its possibilities during the past three years...
...Spring" symphony. To quote the composer's own words: "I wrote the symphony in the vernal passion that sways men until they are very old, and surprises them again with each new year. The first entrance of trumpets is to be sounded as though from on high, like unto an awakening call; it begins to grow green everywhere, butterflies take wing, birds pour forth their melodies, and little by little all things come that pertain in any way to spring...
...became Mary Anderson's leading man in 1886, and contributed to her fame, as Leontes in "The Winter's Tale," as the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in "The Scarlet Letter," and Orlando in "As You Like...