Word: delight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...votes of the Board of Overseers will take a great weight of anxiety from the minds of those who love football. The prospects seemed so dark after the last of the recent Faculty votes, that the delight in their brightening is very great. It is pleasant to notice that the Overseers have taken a view of the intercollegiate football question which is identical with that of the students. They differ from the Faculty, as the students have differed, merely in thinking that the impossibility of remedying the present evils connected with football, has not yet been proved. Prove...
...this poem beyond the delight, we gain strength and consolation, and if these serve the purpose of helping man in the struggle of life, then never has their function been better fulfilled than in this work of the loftiest of the human poets...
...more pleasing comedy is presented. It is at once clean, wholesome, pathetic and merry, without a dull scene in it. The plot is well sustained throughout, and culminates joyously, enlisting the fine sympathies of one's nature and sends the audience away with a sense of keen and clean delight. "In Mizzoura" is well known, having been produced more recently than "The Gold Mine," and those who remember Mr. Goodwin's superb impersonation of Jim Radburn, the Mizzoura sheriff, will welcome the announcement of its revival with unalloyed pleasure...
...Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice," he thought, was not the best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work...
...LIBERTY HALL" AT THE HOLLIS.-The week of Monday, November 12, will be an event of importance and delight at Hollis Street Theatre. The Charles Frohman, Rich and Harris stock company has a record of unbroken success at New York, and will present one of their greatest pieces at the Hollis,-the comedy, "Liberty Hall," by R. C. Car-ton. This play has enjoyed a protracted run in England and was given for 105 nights in New York with immense success. It is a dainty love story charmingly told. A young English girl loses her father and discovers that...