Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also comparatively free from the digressions which often mar the work of Euripides. The grouping of the actors on the stage assisted the unity of the piece by directing the attention to the central figure. The plot itself was almost bodily borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away...
...concerts is evinced by the crowded attendance, and last evening Sanders' seating capacity was taxed to its utmost limit. The quality of the concert was as good, if not better, than those of past years. The programme was long yet varied, while the selections rendered were chosen with great skill. The singing of the Glee Club and playing of the Banjo Club was such as to warrant the expectation of a successful western trip. Both Clubs showed the result of their almost continual practice during the fall in preparation for their projected trip of next week. In short, we congratulate...
...Longworth, '91, followed with a violin solo, the Adagio from Viotti's twenty-second Concerto being his selection. Mr. Longworth played with the same exquisite skill and delicacy which won him such deserved appreciation last year. Mr. Longworth was recalled and played Mendelssohn's Spring song, arranged for the violin...
...life of the Arabian poets was like that of the medixval troubadours. The minstrels wandered from place to place, and sang their own poems to intelligent and critical audiences at public gatherings. Trials of skill were frequent, and great rewards fell to the share of the victor...
...species which furnish coffee, tea, pepper, Peruvian bark, guava, and so on. It seems to be a pity that so many plants are crowded into so small a space, with no chance of properly displaying them, but the new foreman, Mr. Cameron, has shown a great deal of skill in arranging them. He, as well as his first assistant, Mr. Barker. was trained at the royal gardens at Kew, near London. They have given prominence in the arrangement of the plants to those which are likely to be of special interest to visitors who are fond of tropical and subtropical...