Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...theatre before an enthusiastic audience. The play went off with considerable snap and with more smoothness it promises to be the most successful yet given by the club. The characters are grotesquely drawn and provoke hearty laughter in the many amusing situations that arise. D. P. Cook '05, who wrote the book, is fascinating as the gay grass widow and his excellent singing leaves little to be desired. W. W. Fisher '04, as the rollicking farmer, Caleb Sweet, is life-like on account of his peculiar nasal twang. An entirely different part, the hustling showman, is effectively carried...
Schumann's symphony in Bb major is most appropriate to this season of the year, for it is always known as his "Spring" symphony. To quote the composer's own words: "I wrote the symphony in the vernal passion that sways men until they are very old, and surprises them again with each new year. The first entrance of trumpets is to be sounded as though from on high, like unto an awakening call; it begins to grow green everywhere, butterflies take wing, birds pour forth their melodies, and little by little all things come that pertain...
...sufficiently close and intimate relations with the players, the stage-setting is considered of first importance, then the costumes, the actors next, and the play last. In the elder time all this was reversed, and the play with its interpretation stood out clearly, "when Burbage acted, and when Shakespere wrote...
...July 17, 1841, and graduated from this University in 1860, receiving the degree of LL.B., four years later. He practiced law in Boston until appointed to the clerkship of the Supreme Court. He was widely known as a Shakespearian scholar and render and for more than thirty years he wrote dramatic criticism for The Boston Advertiser. During the the past year Mr. Clapp was dramatic critic for The Boston Herald. In 1894 the University conferred on him the honorary degree...
...Museum has received from Mr. Charles T. Murray, the water-color drawing of Devonport by J. M. W. Turner, a work of which John Ruskin, who once owned it, wrote--"No more wonderful drawing, take it all for all, exists by Turner's hand...