Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...husband and honey to everyone else - is another ideal of the French school of romance. The real heroine of the drama is Zerlina, the true hearted and pure minded daughter of an innkeeper, the beloved of Lorenzo, the captain of a troup of Carabiniers, who, however, has every prospect of being rejected by her father, on the score of his poverty, till he acquires both wealth and glory by the capture of Fra Diavolo, the bandit Marquis and his lawless retainers. There are two subordinate Canditti - though far from subordinate in the interest they impart to the drama - Beppo...
Within the past year the Cambridge Social Union has enlarged its work by the addition of a department of instruction very much like that of the Prospect Union. Though this is the first year the work has been very successful. Between thirty and forty courses in Latin and Greek, the modern languages, history and economics, mathematics, natural science and other branches have been given. Classes in elocution, singing and physical culture have also been organized. The instruction in these courses has been given for the most part by Harvard students. Twenty six men in all from the different departments...
Classes are held five evenings in the week at the rooms of the Social Union on Brattle street. One evening is given up to lectures, social or dramatic entertainments which are open to the public. This evening is much like the public Wednesday evening of the Prospect Union...
...work upon the undergraduate mind, or of estimating their effects. The interests of the student not unnaturally seem to be confined to the various forms of athletic or social activity, with now the possible exception of debating, which is often supposed to be stimulated only by the prospect of contests with Yale...
There is every prospect of an intensely interesting meeting between Harvard and Yale on the track this afternoon. Neither college will carry off the victory without a hard struggle, yet both are hopeful. There are many events in which it will be impossible to pick the winner before the games, while those about the result of which there can be no doubt, are pretty evenly divided between the two colleges. Harvard has most of the men who won points in the recent University games to count upon, and at least one strong addition. The team is very well able...