Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Alchemist" is swift in movement, full of bustle and life, witty, good humored, and skillfully constructed. By invitation of the Department of English of Wellesley College, a special performance will be given in the "Barn," on the evening of April...
...given next year by Mr. R. M. Johnston. It will extend through the whole year, and will count as one course. The course will take up general Italian history in the nineteenth century since Napoleon I, emphasizing the revival of national spirit as seen in the Risorgimento (Resurrection) movement...
...explaining the various ways in which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time, since it enabled executions to be conducted with a rapidity and a certainty which would have been impossible with the means formerly at the disposal...
...Arden." On dates in April to be announced later, the Hon. J. J. Myers '69, of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mr. R. W. G. Welling '80, will speak on subjects which have not yet been definitely chosen. Mr. Welling's subject will be connected with the reform movement in New York in which he has been actively interested for several years...
...shade more happy if he did not describe Mr. Wister's "Philosophy 4" as a "booklet." The story by Mr. Hagedorn has more atmosphere than one often finds in that kind of thing nowa-days; and the amateurish "Ballad of the Trent,'" has promising simplicity, and vigor of movement. Perhaps the most significant article, however, is that which urges a new course. The writer is of opinion that Harvard men do not write good short stories; and with the artless assumption, so characteristic of our present system, that no one can learn anything without taking a course...