Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...closely connected with his celebrated contemporaries and he was in favor at court. His unobtrusiveness is a noticeable trait. He had an unusual shyness of all publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist has done nothing until he has concealed himself." If the converse be true, Shakspere is truly a master...
...choir sang the following anthems: "They That Wait Upon the Lord." - Stainer. "Like as the hart." - Novello. "God is Love." - Shelley...
...social side of the Oxonian's life, and the third, to Oxford athletics. The social situation is summed up in the following sentence: "Thus, if there are no societies in the Harvard sense, there is far more society; if there are no all-important clubs, the whole place is like a club;" while the state of athletics may be gathered from these two sentences: "Exercise is thus not confined to an athletic set," and, "In general, one is impressed by the combination of strength and gentle manners in the undergraduates." On the whole, the description of Oxford is very captivating...
...best. It is simply written, and its metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard. It is admirable in the impression of fantastical wierdness that it leaves, like a strange and unpleasant dream, but the versification is very rough in places, and the words are not always well chosen...
...things that happened at out of town concerts of the Ninety-four freshman glee club, we take this opportunity of reminding Ninety-five that outside the college they stand as representatives of Harvard, and that the college has a right to demand of them that they behave like Harvard gentlemen...