Word: monarchical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...followed by ex-Secretary Root, who, after narrating a few anecdotes of the personal history of President Taft, paid President Eliot this glowing tribute: "If it should so befall Dr. Eliot to be appointed Ambassador, before whatever monarch he shall stand, there we shall know our great republic, in all its good qualities of truth and sincerity of nature, in all its pious ideals and aspirations, is represented by a man, an American gentleman, a scholar and a sage indeed...
...Triangle Club has announced the name of its play for this year, "The Mummy Monarch," written by R. S. Denstine '08 and H. J. Van Dyke...
...scene of the play is in the Philippines on the Island of Tavolara, which is ruled ostensibly by the avaricious King Philippine, but really by his prime minister, Prince Ping Pong. The King's father, on his death-bed, charged the present monarch to abdicate after reigning twenty-five years, unless he married before the expiration of that period. The twenty-five years expire on the day after the play opens, and the king, worried by the thought of abdicating, is trying to find a wife. He proposes first to Mrs. Sarah Belium, the missionary, and then to her niece...
...dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...