Word: robertson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
Summary: HARVARD. McGILL. Pell, l.c. r.c., Gobier, Pedley Hicks, l.c. r.c., Ramsay Rumsey, r.c. l.c., Raphael Newhall, Gardner, r.e. l.e., Robertson Ford, c.p. c.p., Roberts Willetts, p. p., Dunn Washburn, g. g., Reed...
...glad to see that the English Department is not resting upon its laurels in the matter of providing in Cambridge plays of real merit. It is some years since Forbes Robertson played "Hamlet" in Sanders Theatre; but there is no reason why we should wait several more years for a similar performance. Miss Maude Adams's first performance on a Harvard stage should be the fore-runner of the appearance of many other actors and actresses who are willing to appear before Harvard audiences in Cambridge, rather than have a few undergraduates see them each night in Boston. Our audiences...
Miss Maude Adams will give two performances of "As You Like It," under the auspices of the Harvard English Department, in Sanders Theatre, on Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 1908. The Elizabethan stage used in the production of "Hamlet" by Mr. Forbes-Robertson in April, 1904, will be reconstructed. The stage will be a reproduction of the "Fortune Theatre" as it existed in London in Elizabethan times. To make this possible, all the ground-floor seats in Sanders Theatre will be removed, and the stage built out into the pit about 20 feet. By means of scenic devices...
...Chamberlin, Hayes, B. D. Lewis, Post, Richards, Robertson, Whipple...