Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Anyone who has studied the "side lines" at a Harvard and Yale football game Knows that the tumult of college yells comes largely from undeveloped, weak and unelastic bodies. It is to be hoped that Harvard will not stop at the Freshman class but will apply the system to the schools that supply her students...
...outcome will be awaited with interest The atmosphere of the Latin quarter pervades the whole of the first two acts. The third act shows a scene in Drury Lane Theatre, with a distant view of the stage, where may be seen Trilby and the orchestra leader. The tumult aroused by her failure to sing and the subsequent death of Svengali end this act. The fourth act depicts the tragic death of Trilby...
...prophet and a man of beautiful humility of life, stands out from the material thinkers of his time. His religious interest was not passive; it was of the critical, "mystical" kind which teaches that if one learns to see God one sees through the vanities of worldliness; that the tumult of the soul comes from loving things not immertal...