Word: normans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Moses King, who never has been accused of charging more for books than the lowest priced bookstore in Boston, announces that for the next ten days he will sell the following books at the prices indicated: Harvard Greek Play, by H. Norman, $1.25; American College Song Book, $1.40; Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, $8.25; Butcher and Lang's Translation of Odyssey, $1.00; Mill's Political Economy...
...book as - "Plutarch's Morals," edited by W. W. Goodwin, translated by S. Hands, (several hands) - was pardonable, but for the Englishman to run his neck into such a noose of folly reflects upon himself gravely. The other offence is new and still rankles. Apropos of Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play," the aforesaid reviewer is amused at the importance of the occasion to the Massachusetts University, in that "the performance of the Antigone (sic!) should be thought worthy of being recorded in a neatly gotten-up and handsomely illustrated volume." "The performance of the Antigone...
...Norman, who recently left the Law School, is not Mr. Henry Norman, author of the Greek play, as has been stated. Mr. Henry Norman went to England several weeks...
...Greek play at Harvard was a great success was well proven at the time of its production both by the public and the press throughout the country. The New York Times, however, seems to think that enough glory has fallen upon it, and, in a review of Mr. Norman's book, says: "The actors in the 'AEdipus Tyrannus' played at Harvard barely escaped the ridiculous on more than one occasion; perhaps it was more due to the serious nature of the audience than to the lack of comical incidents and situations. The play was, however, excellently put on the stage...
...Nation takes the opportunity of a severe critique upon Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play" to shake his ambrosial locks in doubting comment on the results of said play for Harvard and the cause of Greek studies generally. It says: "College presidents will shake their heads when they read that for five months there were three or four rehearsals a week, and that for six weeks preceding the performance there was a rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard...