Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...performance last evening went off smoothly, the acting as a whole was excellent, and the spoken German was remarkable for precision. K. Delbrueck 1G., of Berlin, played the difficult double role of Uncle and Newphew with skill and versatility. H. von Kaltenborn '09, as Oberst on Dorsigny, successfully adapted his acting and appearance to the demands of his part. Of the female parts, that of Frau von Dorsigny by C. O. Mueller '11, received the best interpretation. E. W. Friend '08, who played the part of Sophie, acquitted himself creditably, considering that he assumed the role when rehearsals were well...
...Tenney was invited to deliver the lectures on "The History of China" in Professor Coolidge's course on "Studies in the Expansion of Europe since 1815," noted in the Catalogue as History 18b, and has fulfilled his position with marked success. A long acquaintance with the country and familiarity with its institutions and language, as well as an active participation in some of its latest and most important crises, enabled Dr. Tenney to present a graphic and accurate idea of China and her position in the Far East...
...government. Personal freedom is emphatically at the bottom of our government and to preserve it against arbitrary control should be the purpose of the college man. Political problems, such as the tariff and socialism, should be dealt with rationally. Constructive policy and a fixed purpose persistently followed lead to success. The government must be kept under control; it must control the corporate interests which, through railroad rate discrimination have made trusts possible...
...Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
...Mackaye is not the first who has tried to dramatize this old Greek myth, poetical enough in itself to fascinate all poets. If the success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even...