Word: abelard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Struggling against odds to reseue the production from Mr. Gerhardi were the two leads, Mendy Weisgal and Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...
...plot of Gerhardi's satire on reincarnation revolves about a character called Hector Rigoletto, a butcher who is mystically able to determine who all the other characters were in their "former existences." Rigoletto himself, played by Mendy Welagal '45, had been Aristotle and Abelard...
...this system started with Adam, it would have meant that Antony would have met Cleopatra all right; but Abelard and Heloise would have missed by one letter, and Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have stood by a balcony, much less a chance...
...twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers of the Liberal Arts there formed a gild or corporation in order to keep up standards and protect their interest. After the candidate had resided a certain number of years, attended the prescribed lectures, and read the required books, he took two read the required books, he took two oral examinations, paid numerous fees, treated the bedels or university officials to drinks, figs, and gloves, and engaged in Latin disputation on the evening before Commencement, which came in early July...
...this emergency. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in the tutorial teaching program is that it does not count for advancement, and is regarded chiefly as a chore that young instructors have to endure. Tutoring, in fact, has been the very essence of university teaching from the days of Abelard...