Word: visits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second act finds the conspirators in their underground lair, engaged in manufacturing dynamite bombs. They are interrupted in their work by a visit from Della Croca and his peace force. With infinite resource they disguise the true significance of their occupation, and finally get rid of the unwelcome visitors. At this point, a person whom they suppose to be the king, but who is in reality an escaped lunatic, enters the dungeon. When they have recovered from their surprise, they seize him, load him with chains and prepare to carry...
...James B. Ludlow '81, on a visit to Oxford, was entertained at the Oxford Union. The success of this club seemed to him to point to the remedy for existing conditions at Harvard, and on his return to Cambridge he instigated, through the existing college periodicals, a movement for a Harvard University Club. The idea met with general favor, and on March 26, 1880, the Harvard Union was formed. The first officers were: President, W. R. Thayer '81; vice-president, J. G. Thorp '79; secretary, I. N. Panin '82; treasurer, C. G. Washburn '80; committee, F. Warren...
Hawthorne's visit to the Berkshires in 1838 marked the turning point of his career. Contact with the rough, hearty mountaineers and frontiersmen brought to him for almost the first time a realization of other men and other lives, and with this experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might...
...Hyde '98, founder of the Cercle Francais lectures, has secured from M. Coquelin a promise to deliver a lecture at Harvard under the auspices of the Cercle during the Boston visit of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin. The subject of the lecture, which will be given in French, and the exact date will be announced later...
...greater need than he. Franziska plays her part so well, that Tellhelm that he has in reality refused to aid one who was in greater need than he. Franziska plays her part so well, that Tellhelm impulsively demands an immediate interview with Minna, but is told to pay his visit later in the day. Before the interview takes place the Major receives a letter from the king rehabilitating his military honor and personal fortunes. Over-joyed at this unexpected outcome the Major hastens to Minna, expecting to be welcomed as of old. Minna, on the contrary, in her pretended poverty...