Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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FRENCH PLAY.- Rehearsal at 4.30 in the gymnasium of Ware Hall, beginning Act III, Scene 13, through Acts IV and V. All men trying for parts in these acts must be present...
...Society have already begun rehearsals for their annual spring theatricals, which will be given in April. The name of the play is "Fool's Gold." It is a two act comic opera, written on fairly legitimate lines and with considerable plot. The scene is laid in Italy. The music is by John A. Loud '98, and the libretto by Vivian Burnett '98. Mr. Edward E. Rose will, as in former years, have entire charge of the rehearsals and staging of the play...
...impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing he should be to let the man who had got flowers pass out, he would be absolutely unable to move. This scene would be very flat and uninteresting to the spectators, as there would be nothing to see but a black mass with a slight swaying motion perhaps. It would be unsatisfactory to the men participating as so few men would get at the flowers...
...scene of this story is "Drumtochty" and many of the characters in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" and "Days of Old Lang Svne" reappear in its pages. The author tells the story of the strong and simple love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came...
...Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war. The geographer Strabo, however, and some other ancient writers were of a different opinion. They removed Troy to a site four miles further east. Among modern scholars, some have denied the existence of Troy altogether; others, as Curtius and Kiepert, have placed...