Word: popularized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play was written about 1618 and held the stage a number of years, being probably the most popular comedy of that period. Like "Romeo and Juliet" it depicts the adventures of two members of warring families, who fall in love with each other. Although the play is published among the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, many scholars believe it to have been written, in part at least, by Rowley...
...support of the claims made by the editorial much can be said. Bishop Brooks was not opposed to the use of tobacco, and the petition of the Graduate Club shows that the action of the committee is not popular even with the clubs for which the House is primarily intended...
...reference to the popular impression that the College is burdened with scholarships and that a surplussage of such aid tends to place a discount on real deserts, the Dean makes a most enlightening and authoritative statement. By far the greater part of the work done in the College is done by men who are absolutely independent. It is not money alone which stimulates men in scholarly pursuits, all of which is very commendable and perhaps natural. But it is not so well known that "many deserving and needy students fail to win any scholarships; and that there...
...Hamlet" has had a singular power over the minds of men and women. It stands alone, the most melancholy and the most popular of all works. It has been translated into twenty seven tongues, and even during the restoration of the Stuarts, when the rest of Shakspere's plays were for the time forgotten in England, Hamlet continued to be played. This play, standing as it does among the plays of the tragic period, is the manifestation of some great grief which has entered Shakspere's life at this time. It represents also the impression which human tragedy made...
...February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper by Dr. F. N. Robinson on the Irish Epic...