Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other as occasion demands. Cuffs are also marked with hieroglyphics, and the part of the shirt bosom covered by the vest is daintly inscribed with notes, of value only to the owner. Other paper cribs are worn in the sleeves, and, fastened by elastics, fly back at the approach of danger. Similar contrivances are tied by thin rubber bands to suspender straps, and, drawn down below the vest at will, can be sent back to that safe retreat in short order if a professor appears at all suspicious. Small cribs are pasted in watch covers. Highly polished shoes offer...
...point of intimacy between the student and his professor. The establishment, therefore, of these conferences must in a large degree, if not wholly, do away with all the grounds which other and smaller colleges have for claiming any superiority over Harvard and the one or two other colleges that approach Harvard in size. So that it is earnestly to be hoped that this valuable practice, that has this year been widely extended, may in a very short time become universal...
...will serve as the foundation for subsequent changes as the play proceeds. The garden scene will be presented with great care, although the chief changes in the stage arrangements will be property changes. Roman vexilla and standards will be used, and Caesar's advent will be heralded by the approach of the ancient singe bearing upon them the SPQR. Great care has been expended upon the costumes. Artemidorus, the sophist, and the soothsayer will be dressed in a different manner from that of the hackneyed public stage-costumes. The dress of the citizens will conform as closely as possible...
...near approach of the representation of "Julius Caesar" by the members of the Shakespeare Club again brings to the notice of the public the praiseworthy activity of the club. The Shakespeare Club from its organization has shown itself to be one of the most enterprising of all the college societies. But when the club undertook to present to the public a Shakespearean play it undertook a labor of which the difficulty can be imagined but by few. The novelty of the idea at once carried the mind back to the representation of the Oedipus Tyrannus. But in comparing the proposed...
...developed into an interesting story. For interesting it certainly is, but decidedly not powerful. The manner in which the story is told is another ground for criticism, for the grand climax of the book, the part which should be strongest, is not equal to the steps by which we approach it, and the book leaves a sense of something wanting, a promised strength which is not forthcoming. It also lacks unity, and the first chapters, treating of the boyhood of Beverly, present anecdotes of him, which entirely fail to delineate his character with any vividness. One might also think that...