Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Both show imagination, the second especially has some excellent lines. "The Song of the Revolutionist" by A. Davis '07 has a good galloping rhythm, and "O I'll be there at the Merrymaking" by R. J. Walsh '07 has enough human tenderness to make us forget the time-worn theme...
...that from Boola Ban! Even foolishness, however, has its foolish laws, and there is a kind of absurd orderliness in nonsense. In the story "Getting Agnes," by J. L. Warren '08, there is not enough drawing of character to make one willing to forgive the commonplaceness of the theme. Perhaps it is the attitude of the pedagogue that prejudices me in favor of the Professor, who is not as absurd as he should be to make me sympathize with the decorative Junior. "The Derelict," the one lapse into seriousness in the number, although crude, has promising strength. The author might...
...100th anniversary of the establishment of the seat of the federal government at Washington on December 12, 1900. His subject was "The Development of the States during the Century" and the address has often been mentioned by those who heard it as a masterful treatment of an inspiring theme. At the present time when Secretary Shaw speaks he is quoted, and his views commented upon by many periodicals throughout the country...
...conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics of a similar kind "River Wind" compares not unfavorably...
...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...