Word: turns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choir sang "Come, Holy Ghost," by John Dowland; "Hearken Unto Me," by Sullivan; and "Turn Thy Face From My Sins," by Sullivan...
...adapting their ideas to the needs of the stage, but at the same time it tended to produce artificiality. The beginning of Boucicault's dramatic work was practically in "London Assurance," which appeared about 1840. It was criticised as "a mere imitation of Sheridan," but Sheridan in his turn was indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps people to be better, nor keeps them from being worse. Lady Gay Spanker, in "London Assurance," is one of the most attractive stage characters. She does not appear till the third...
...Sherwood Eddy's address before the Y. M. C. A. last night was, full of interesting ideas which brought the subject of foreign missions before the students in a new light. Doubtless his remarks will turn the thoughts of a good many men to a consideration of foreign missionary labor as their line of work for the future. There is great need today for educated young men in all kinds of missionary work. Home missionary work is much more liable to look out for itself, however, than labor of this kind abroad. There is a growing interest today among college...
...High School, on the uniformity of school programmes and the requirements for admission to college. The committee was continued and authorized to investigate the general subject of uniformity and to report to the National Council of Education in 1892. They made some specific recommendations that were approved, and in turn communicated to, and approved by, the National Educational Association, July 9, 1892. The result was that a committee of ten men was appointed with authority to investigate exhaustively the subject of secondary school education in the United States, and the admissions to colleges. The committee was to appoint sub-committees...
...evening of February 14. Dr. Anderson has made arrangements to have the champion amateur gymnasts of the United States give an exhibition. Among them are Robert Stoll, of the New York Athletic Club, champion on the flying rings; H. Bettler, champion on the horizontal bar, and Gus Ahl, Turn Verein champion on the parallel bars. The members of the association will compete for the University championship on the horizontal bar, parallel bars, flying rings and tumbling...