Word: oedipuses
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...evening at Oberlin. The students were sitting under the trees singing hymns or playing squat-tag and blind-man's-buff on the campus. Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...extra performance of the OEdipus had to be given up on account of the near approach of the annuals. But the purpose for which the proceeds were to have been used has not, we are glad to see, been wholly abandoned. The Greek Department contemplate repeating the play next winter, and the money realized from its production will be set aside, the interest from it to be devoted to the founding and yearly maintenance of an Archaeological School at Athens. Other colleges, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in particular, will be invited to subscribe to the fund, which will...
...letter in Wednesday's Advertiser on the "morality" of OEdipus, is one of the most childish productions we have ever read...
...OEDIPUS TYRANNUS OF SOPHOCLES: Text and Translation. Harvard University. The Greek Department...
...danger of misconstruction, we could desire some more substantial tribute of grateful regard; for few know at what expense of time and trouble he and the other gentlemen connected with the production of the play have labored to place before our eyes the majestic agonies of OEdipus the King...