Word: scene
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...celebration of the birth day of Ithaca as a city was the occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water...
...Helena, and Paris was in the hands of his most hated enemies. It is a touching story of that devotion to a great chief so common among old soldiers. Even in his leader's deepest misfortune the veteran remains faithful. Despite a somewhat sudden transition in the death scene the story is realistic and fires the reader with a thrill of martial enthusiasm...
...athletic question in a very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...
...sketch entitled "Carmen" the writer has made use of that vivid, nervous, fascinating style so well adapted to the Spanish scene which he pictures...
...Captain Peter" is a very touching story of an old man's love. The scene is laid in one of the old Berkshire hill towns. The plot is realistic and the treatment excellent; the style, however, would be more effective were it in parts less choppy...