Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second and third acts, which even the long and rather tedious accounts at the beginning of the last act fall to bridge over. In spite of this break, however, the play still merits the highest praise...
...outlook for a strong crew is excellent, since five of last year's eight are still in college and eligible to row. They are: Stroke, Williams; 7, Niedecken; 6, Captain Allen; 5, Brown; 2, Wickes. If Brown declines to row, four places will be left vacant. The men who rowed on last year's university four are all in college. Walton, who has been coxswain for three years, has graduated, and, as the coxswains of the freshman crew and of the four have both grown too heavy, this place will be vacant...
British colored citizens were maltreated, and in the law British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
...class of Nineteen Hundred is likely to have the first fair and good tempered Senior election that has been held for years. It would be a pity to have this election spoiled in itself, but a still greater pity to have its possible moral lesson lost...
...Tremblaye agrees, and to celebrate the marriage Granger tells Corbineli, Charlot Granger's servant, to arrange a comedy for the celebration. Corbineli is also told to make Charlot Granger drunk in order to keep him out of the way until Genevote and Granger are married. Corbineli, who is still in league with his young master, arranges a plot by which Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first...