Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After Milton comes the classical age, and the Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from...
...changes of the play. Another consideration finally decided the question of scenery. It was suggested that a presentation of the play as it was originally acted in Shakspere's time would be appropriate for an organization of college students like the Shakspere club. Such a presentation would involve a return to the original text of the play and to the traditional methods of acting of Shak-spere's time. All scenery, moreover, would be done away with, except the simple devices which, in the olden time, formed the stock in trade of the strolling companies of actors, who then maintained...
...students very naturally wish to learn their marks as soon as possible, except, perhaps, that small number of them who know that they are below par in a subject and want the marks delayed ad infinitum. In the courses in which there are only a few men, an early return of the blue books with the marks on them, is a matter of no exertion for the instructors. In such courses the longing of the students will be quickly satisfied, no doubt. But in other courses, where the men number hundreds, and one instructor has several such, great delay...
...needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University a favor, in thus coming to its rescue. You are, on the contrary, making an investment which will yield you a handsome return. It is for your own interest that the society succeed...
...that space possessed more dimensions than two. At last, being forcibly taken out of the land of two dimensions by the sphere, he realized that such a thing as spaceland could exist. He was unable, however, to convince his friends and relatives in Flatland of his experiences, after his return to that place...