Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distribution from its members. The attempt is being made to produce architects who will know better than to design a skyscraper of beautiful proportions, with nothing but a medieval spiral staircase to the top floor; and who may, nevertheless have a knowledge of architectural types prior to the Victorian era. With similar intent, a solid background of literature and history is required of all students concentrating in Fine Arts...
...have been suppressed elsewhere in this country. These books have withstood the criticism of centuries, have been included in all the great libraries of the world, and have been listed among the best products in any literature. We are still censoring them, and our great-great-aunts, the mid-victorian, ladies who dressed the piano's "limbs" in pantalettes, would give vigorous nods of approval...
Much of the entertainment which the play affords is due to the high quality of its presentation. There are lines-not a few of them of whose Victorian conventionality one would be painfully aware were it not for the skill of rendering. Mr. Clive's curtain speech, "She sha'n't, she sha'n't, she sha'n't", at the end of Act Two is an excellent example. Without exception however, the cast rendered their parts well. Miss Cleveland was occasionally unconvincing and Mr. Turner's Romeo-like sobbing under the stress of grief was a bit absurd...
...Senior Yeggs who will be operating today on the embattled steps of Widener. So long as the graduating class must trespass upon the prerogative of banditry, it should do it in the most approved and up-to-date fashion. The Freshmen must not be cajoled by mid-Victorian methods; and the dignity of the Senior must be preserved … Still...
...clock.--New Lecture Hall, "Characteristics of the Victorian Period," by Professor Bliss Perry. English...