Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...midst of scathing remarks about one who had mutilated the plot and aspired to improve on Shakspere, asserts that Lear cannot be acted. Such a judgment may be regarded as a bolder impeachment of Shakspere than the mere alteration of a plot, since it condemns, not a part, but the whole, for the purpose for which it was written. For I take it that closet tragedies are not produced until authors get to be more in love with themselves than with nature. Undoubtedly it is hard to put King Lear on the stage; for it requires a great actor...
...good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter in part: "As I have given you fair warning," he says "don't be surprised if your grave, sedate, philosophic friend, who used to carry it so high, and talk with such a composed indifference of the beauteous sex, and whom you used to admonish not to turn an old man too soon...
...money spent in the 30 clay courts made during the summer will be lent by the corporation of the college. The $1,243.50, which the association has to pay this spring, has already, for the greater part, been subscribed by the students, but not yet paid. As the contracts must be signed immediately, it is necessary that subscriptions should be paid immediately. They may be sent to the secretary of the association, 10 Holworthy, or paid in person to any of the collectors. It is hoped that no further remarks in this direction may be necessary...
...audience that assembled at the Athenxum rooms last evening was very large. The programme consisted of Part I, a Minstrel Show, with the following taking part: H. E. Peabody (interlocutor); J. H. Knapp and A. R. Weed (bones); J. B. T. Tuthill and F. H. Stanyan (tambos); and Messrs. A. T. Dudley, Luce, Eldredge, Bowen, Bourne, Ames, Parmenter, Hale, J. W. Dudley, and G. P. Knapp; and Part II, Song and Dance, Mr. J. H. Knapp, Bouquet of Reveries, F. H. Stanyan, singing by quartette, Messrs. Eldredge, A. T. Dudley, J. W. Dudley, and H. E. Peabody, and a farce...
...lecture in History 13 will be delivered to-day, at 4 P. M. Dr. Hart desires to finish his part of the course as soon as possible before the spring vacation, no lecture being given on the last day of the term. After the vacation Dr. Taussig will conduct the course...