Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE.- Booth and Barrett, "Fool's Revenge," and "Yorick's Love...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Booth and Barrett, "Fool's Revenge," and "David Garrick...
...describes his feelings in the grave and the sensation of being devoured by the worms, and finally accuses the Abbot of being the cause of his woes. As be ceases to speak he throws himself at the affrighted monk. In the morning the friars find the Abbot a "gibbering fool." The story is wonderfully well told and as a work of the imagination highly successful...
...present. That remedy lies in the students themselves. It can come from no other source. It may be awakened from contact with the world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that it is the cardinal sin of the calendar is a matter of doubt. Such it is regarded here; and it has become a common saying among those who have never been benefitted by our civilization that "a Harvard...
...Indeed, another short story, as good as the first one, could have a taken the place of the batch of daily themes. The practice of publishing these choice bits of literature is good, but five is too many for a paper of the size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there is no plot; but the author has taken a series of incidents, hackneyed by long use in college productions - a railroad train, a rescue, two falls and a young lady, with a handsome military hero and stupid rival - and has by clever arrangement...