Word: styles
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...broken, one equalled, two Olympic marks bettered and one equalled. A. C. Gilbert of Yale did 12 feet, 7 3-4 inches in the pole-vault, thus bettering Dray's former world's record of 12 feet, 6 1-2 inches. In the competition for the discus throw, free style, A. K. Dearborn, the former Wesleyan weight thrower and New England intercollegiate record holder for the discus throw, best Martin J. Sheridan's former world's record of 136 feet, 2 inches, with a throw of 139 feet, 11 inches. In a heat of the 100-metre race, Robertson...
Shortly after 8 o'clock the Elizabethan audience had assembled for the play, and with the "gallants" dressed in the style of the period, afforded a very picturesque impression...
...strength of a place: this castle does not at present rise sheer from the sea-cliff, and but for a garden wall it is quite easy to walk around it. Of the structural refinements of Both well, on the other hand, he does not seem sufficiently appreciative. The style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear...
...feelings inspired him to write in Latin. Sallust and Livy followed his example, although the real change was only in the medium of expression. Tacitus, who succeeded these men in Roman historiography, resembled Sallust, but greatly excelled Livy both in narration and rhetoric, though he constantly sacrificed facts to style. The Christianizing movement, he said in concluding this subject, compressed history into a new framework and gave it an entirely different perspective...
...June in the Stadium, under the auspices of the department of classies, the Copley Society and the American Free Art League. The plans are as yet undeveloped, but the details are in the hands of the Copley Society. The intention is to present a Greek Play after the style of the "Agamemnon," given by the classical department...