Word: paled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the opening scene of Faust's studio, where the pale, ascetic student, wearying of his search after truth, calls upon the arch fiend to aid him, the audience is carried through a bewildering array of scenes, each one a master-piece. Scenic artist Frank King has worked unceasingly for two weeks past and professes himself satisfied with the result. The electrical effects form a very large part of the production, and these are adequately supplied by Electrician Murphy...
...ninth number of the Advocate opens with a sadly atrabilious editorial upon Harvard snobbishness. It betrays a considerable amount of youthful cynicism, the writer being evidently sicklied o'er with an exceedingly pale cast of thought at the moment of its production...
...other articles of fiction in the number are "The Joyless Asphodel," by William V. Moody, and "The Pale Stranger," by Julian Palmer Welsh. In the former, the author shows the material for a very pretty and interesting story, which he fails to do full justice in the working up. "The Pale Stranger" betrays a lack of originality; for the unknown princely guest who sings a mysterious song and then disappears, leaving the fair maiden dead behind him, is hardly without parallel in fairy tale and legend...
Yesterday the overseers put an end to all the discussion about the Harvard Annex by formally receiving it as an organic part of Harvard University. There will now be within the pale of the University two colleges, Harvard College and Radcliffe College; here we have a suggestion of Oxford and Cambridge which will touch the pride of those students who look with admiration on the great English universities. This action of the overseers is a direct compliment to the cause of the higher education of women and a direct compliment also to this particular institution. A formal acknowledgement from Harvard...
...much in these arguments which would not strictly apply to the altered conditions of today, yet the documents are valuable to show the historical growth of the tariff question, and what is of even more service, they represent the opinions of sober, hard thinking statesmen, who outside the pale of polities, were working for the best economic interests of the nation...