Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...already been made known to the college that the Shakspere Club is planning to give a public representation of Julius Caesar this spring. During the past week the president of the club, Mr. Jones, has been busy reducing the various suggestions for the project into definite shape. The assignment of characters was finally determined last Saturday, and in other details the plan is now practically complete. The date of the presentation of the play is set for the third week...
...reform is the discussion of the requirements for admission, which is now going on in the meetings of the faculty. That a fight would soon be made by the socalled opponents of Greek has been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number of students to Harvard is most probable...
...stylishy cut clothes of hundreds who, upon less important occasions, sedately take their seats in the dress circles of the stalls. The medicals had scaled the heights for the purpose of making a demonstration, and upon Miss Ward's appearance they unrolled their banners of homage, in the shape of the black velvet flag with skull and crossbones of the "meds.," the crimson and gold ensign of the embryo "surveyors and engineers" and a long streamer with "Au Revoir" inscribed upon it. They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung...
Brown University has an addition to her gymnasium in the shape of one billiard table...
...alone, and those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they have no chance to digest ; and they come to play mere parrot roles, learning their task-work without any stimulus to awaken their powers of observation or shape their judgment...