Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writers, Congreve was perhaps the wittiest. Farquaar excelled in the splendid action which he introduced into his plays. Nowhere does this come nearer perfection than in "The Beaux Stratagem." The other of Farquaar's plays which every one should read is "Sir Harry Wildair." Charles Lamb always claimed that these plays were not immoral in their influence for the simple reason that no one believed in them. The heroes are essentially gentlemen,-or rather "truly good fellows," in spite of their seeming indecency. From Farquaar Sheridan really got his Charles Surface and Captain Absolute...
...comparative. He is trying to do better. Later he is content if he obtains the positive, if he can do well, not better than anyone else. So it seems as if all through a man's life his ideals were falling lower and lower. Really he is coming nearer to the true way of looking at life as he grows older. So in spiritual life a young man cannot see the trouble so clearly when he is full of ambition and ideals, but only...
...feel sure that the final adjustment of this matter will meet with the hearty approval of members of the University; though co-education in the popular sense of the word will not exist here, under the new arrangement the higher education of young women will be brought much nearer to that of young men and given the place that fairmindedness must admit that it deserves...
...stories of Mr. Parkman's life and labors which will have a lesson for us who are now in college. Very much of Harvard's honorable position is directly traceable to the high character and noble quality of her graduates, and every chance which present students have of drawing nearer to these graduates and studying their lives is a chance too valuable to miss...
...successful but Harvard was ready for it. Three kicks in succession left Harvard the ball near the middle. Brewer gained ten yards around the left end, the full backs exchanged kicks. Fumbles on both sides, another kick from Pennsylvania and the backs by good hard rushing brought the goal nearer. Dunlop made the third touchdown and Brewer kicked the goal. Harvard...