Word: sons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...retained, but more life and movement have been added. Moliere's play also has far more of the modern ideas and situations than Phormio. The characters and the plot are as follows: Argante and Geronte are two old men. Octave and Leandre are two young fellows; Octave is the son of Argante and Leandre of Geronte. Zerbinette and Hyacinthe are two young girls. The first was captured when very little by gypsies and brought up by them as one of their own children. Hyacinthe is the daughter of Geronte. Octave is in love with Hyacinthe, and Leandre with Zerbinette. Scapin...
...spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...
...cultus of the dead comes from both fear and affection. In China it is the cultus which is universal, and it may be traced back 1900 years before our era. Tablets which record the death of parents always belong to the eldest son, by whom they are worshipped, and these tablets are preserved during four or five generations...
...second, "The Last Letter," the only fault is that the plot is unreasonable, if not impossible. By far the best thing in the number is "Jim," by C. A. Pierce. It is a story of a small boy who ran away from home and returned, like the prodigal son, to a much better reception than he had any reason to expect. The story is charmingly written. The poetry of the number is not above the average...
...executive committee of the American school at Athens, of which Professor Seymour of Yale is chairman, at a meeting at New Haven Saturday, elected Professor T. D. Goodell of Yale professor of Greek language and literature for the coming year. Richard Norton, son of Charles Eliot Norton, was elected instructor in the school, and Professor Wheeler of the University of Vermont was elected secretary of the committee...