Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given at Agassiz House Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Instead of one long play, this year there will be three short pieces, "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," by Brieux; "L'Intruse," by Maeterlinck; and "Les Deux Sourds," by Moinaux. This first is a one-act comedy, treating the problem of a mother-in-law's position in the household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death is very near his daughter...
...Casey makes some thoughtful remarks, under the caption "Opera, Owned and Borrowed," on the ever fresh problem of opera in Boston, one which should be solved if that community is to retain its position in the musical life of the country. Comments on an editorial from the "Opera Magazine," and reviews conclude a number of high standard which must re-affirm the consideration to which the "Musical Review" is entitled as a genuine contribution to the critical activity of our country...
...There is no English or American theatre devoted to the staging of the plays of Shakespeare; we do not value the 'glorious inheritance' of his work. Before an audience can be expected to sit through a drama of Shakespeare, it must learn the Elizabethan language; this is the real problem of Shakespeare today. It is a deeper question than of our personal culture and pleasure...
President Lowell, in addressing 150 members of the Freshman class at the special service in Appleton Chapel last night discussed the problem of the relation of religion to the life that is worth while. The problems of life grow more serious as life goes on, and it is hard to tell what life is worth while nowadays. "Religion," President Lowell said, "means that which explains why life is worth living and what it is worth living for; and the man who has a philosophy which answers that question, whether his ideas agree with ours or not, has a true religion...
...reach is the problem of how and why life is worth living, without regard to the pain or pleasure of it. No religion can exist unless it teaches that the men who do right are the ones who will have happiness; yet that happiness is what makes them do right...