Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crowd that gathered to listen to the Glee Club last night was but one proof of the very general interest in the evening concerts. There need never be any fear of a small audience during the examination period, for the men busy one day are idle the next. It can not be expected that the Glee Club alone can gratify them all. Two, or at most three, times a week is all they can fairly be asked to sing. On some of the other evenings the students would be well pleased to profit by the kindness of the Banjo...
...play was intended to be a travesty on the Sicilian expedition. This explanation is not likely because the mood of the Athenians on Sicilian affairs was anything but humorous. The second view is that "The Birds" was written to bring about a great reform; but Aristophanes has given no proof that this was his intention. The third view is that the play is purely a fanciful creation, which is really the case...
Professor James closed with these words: "Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. The proof that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment (or some stage of Being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory...
From the hall, just before entering the study room, is a door leading to the library. This room is provided with iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...
Plautus introduced many innovations, especially in metre and in musical accompaniment. The character of the parasite, if not his invention, was certainly elaborated by him. The great proof of Plautus's originality was his popularity. The influence of one poet upon another is always deeply felt, and so the process of transmission from the Greek to the Roman, must not be regarded as imitation, but as continuation...