Word: silent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...romantic teaching. Here as in others of his plays, he takes up the humors of the times, as he calls them and satirizes them most vehemently. This continued till he had almost everybody against him. In King James' reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against the mania for speculation...
...interesting article on Whittier, with a portrait of the poet for the frontispiece. The article is full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring...
...students, therefore, want to be solidly behind the Committee and in a position to support it intelligently. Doubtless there are many men in college who have found themselves called upon to defend the action of the Athletic Committee on some matter but who have been forced to keep silent because they had no accurate knowledge of the arguments which had influenced the committee to the action in question...
...petition of the boat club to employ Mr. Bancroft as a coach was refused. We consider this to be a great blow to the boating interests of Harvard and particularly unfortunate just now when we seem to be almost at our wits' end. For weeks the CRIMSON has remained silent on this subject being unwilling to announce any rumors, but we have patiently waited until the time should come when the welcome news that the petition had been granted could be published as a fact, for we felt almost absolutely sure that this last great effort of our graduates would...
Hollis Street Theatre-The Silent Partner...