Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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American writers, said the speaker, have worked the richest field in the short story. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt...
...with a public rendering of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance," in Sanders Theatre on April 13. The class, composed of Radcliffe and Harvard students, have been working on the opera for some three or four months, and an average attendance of 125 students shows the well-sustained interest in the class. In the public rendering of the opera, the class will be assisted by the Germania Orchestra of Boston, and a quartette made up of the following well-known artists: Soprano, Miss Viola Campbell of Cambridge; alto, Mrs. Grace Campbell Cooke of Boston; tenor, Everett...
...original play, some English classic, but when it was learned that the English department would present "Epicoene" or "The Silent Woman," the society let the matter rest for the time. But this year it was decided to give "The Good Natured Man," by Goldsmith. This comedy, though not as well known as "She Stoops to Conquer," abounds in witty dialogue and humorous situations. For six weeks the men have been at work on their parts, and for a fortnight daily rehearsals have been held...
...Banjo Club has seven banjeaurines, four banjos, and four guitars, and is progressing very well...
...Cummings, who will lecture this evening, is President of the Boston Society of Architects, as well as an architect and scholar. Mr. Edward Robinson is the Curator of Classical Antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. R. S. Peabody is a member of the well-known firm of Peabody and Stearns, architects of Boston, and is also a member of the Board of Overseers. Professor Warren is at the head of the new Department of Architecture in this University. Thus it may be seen that all of the gentlemen who are to give these lectures are experts...