Word: rival
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with an interview between Granger and Chateaufort, the swash buckler of the play, who comes to ask for the hand of Manon, the pedant's daughter. Granger does not want him, wishing to marry Manon to a rich peasant named Gareau, so he tells Chateaufort that he has a rival in La Tremblaye, a gentleman living near the college of Beauvais. Chateaufort goes away breathing threats of vengeance against La Tremblaye. Granger then turns to his own love affairs; for he himself is in love with Genevote, the sister of La Tremblaye. His own son, Charlot Granger, however...
...come to press his suit for Manon. Granger is opposed to him, and in order to get him out of the way, declares that La Trenblaye has already been accepted as Manon's future husband. Mr. Granger turns to his own love affairs. Charlot, being an inconvenient rival, must be got rid of, and is therefore sent off to Venice. He starts with his servant, ostensibly on his journey to Venice, leaving Granger to prepare for an interview with Genevote. Another suitor for Manon's hand comes in at this juncture, but is quickly disposed of on account...
...candidates for the Freshman crew on Saturday. The plan of rowing is for these men to join the Weld and Newell Boat Clubs at once. As the Weld already has a large membership of Freshmen, the men were urged to join the Newell Club in order that the rival club system may become firmly established. R. C. Bolling '00 also spoke of the necessity of strengthening the Newell...
...appreciative understanding of a Greek play; the known facts in the life of the author; his plays in chronological order, as far as possible, with attention to the historical background and to the social and intellectual movements of the times; the poet's relations with contemporary and rival poets, his characteristic merits and defects as a poet, and his attitude towards the problems of life. The design of the course is to give students access to the dramatic literature of the Greeks, and an opportunity to become acquainted with it, even though they lack a technical understanding of the language...
...World," which moreover, savors a good deal of "Harvard Episodes." For the rest of the fiction the "Reminiscences of the P. O.," in an interesting account of some freshmen oarsmen at Poughkeepsie, and "Their Class Dinner" is a slight sketch of three men who held an unsuccessful rival class dinner by themselves. The poetry in the number consists of a "Song-The Lover and the Wind," "Quatrains," and lines...