Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, of Cornell, who lectured with such success before the Harvard Historical Society some two years ago is to deliver a course of lectures before the Students' Lecture Association at Ann Arbor. These lectures should be heard at Harvard...
...wondered at in this busy age, when even Shakspere cannot escape being travestied by popular playwrights. Early in his literary career Gilbert wrote a burlesque of the Princess for one of the leading London theatres, and it is merely this burlesque, remodeled and polished up, that has achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant." The plot of the opera is nearly the same as that of Tennyson's poem, and may be briefly described as follows: Prince Hilarion, the son of King...
Such courses as these have now proved themselves in every sense a success, as, for instance, shown by History II. and Philosophy II. At the last lecture in Philosophy II., Prof. James expressed himself as greatly pleased with the new method by which the course was now conducted, both from the work accomplished and the interest manifested, and other similar statements show the same feeling among the faculty. With such precedents as these, it seems most advisable that the old method be done away with altogether and all the remaining half-courses brought into conformity with the new. When...
...student should allow the years of his college life to pass without an increase of manly physical vigor. He should graduate, proud of his physique as well as of his mental attainments. His future success depends upon both these factors, and only narrowness of mind or of training is shown in the neglect of either. Whoever thinks to magnify his intellect by neglecting or belittling his body, is as wise as he who expects fruit without vines...
...congratulate Prof. Boyesen on the success of his play, and bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...