Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Howells h.'76; "The Old Room," by C. A. Ewald '88; "Essays in Municipal Administration," by J. A. Fairlle '95; "The American Constitution," by F. J. Stimson '76; "Spanish Correspondence," by E. S. Harrison S.'04; "The Case of Summerfield," by W. H. Rhodes L.'46; "Types of Tragic Drama," by C. E. Vaughan '56; "Which College for the Boy?" by J. Corbin '92; "Abraham Lincoln," by C. Schurz h.'76 and T. H. Bartlett; "The Life and Times of Stephen Higginson," by T. W. Higginson '41; "Railroad Reorganization," by S. Daggett '03; "The New American Type...
...places to real pathos; at times, however, the writer is not equal to the tragic situation. E. E. Hunt's little poem, "With a Gift of Shakespeare's Sonnets," is decidedly above the average of undergraduate poetry, while A. W. Murdock's "Hymn to Life" is conventional in subject matter and sometimes obscure in language. J. H. Wheelock's "Sea-Poems" contain some good passages, but there is too much self-consciousness in the poems...
...Library has just received as a gift from Mrs. Paine the manuscript copy of the score on which the late Professor J.K. Paine h.'69 was at work at the time of his death. It is entitled "Lincoln, a Tragic Tone Poem," and consists of twenty-six folio pages of music. Professor Paine had in mind for many years this work, which he hoped would be his greatest achievement...
...Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly into the palace. Cassandra foresees her tragic fate, but is unable to persuade the men of Argos that she is being lured to death. In despair, she enters the gates of the palace, which later are thrown open, and the queen is seen exulting over the murdered bodies of both Agamemnon and Cassandra. She then joins Aegisthus, whom...
...provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...