Word: words
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word of commendation is due those who had in charge the presentation of the play. The costumes showed taste in the grouping of colors, and were, moreover, in keeping with Grecian models. This, in fact, lent no small share to the success of the performance and helped to recall the Oedipus presented in 1882 by members of the university...
...life. Many contemporary portraits also are included, among which that of Goethe's father, is especially valuable. "Truth and Fiction" is a very misleading translation of the title of this work. Wahrheit we expect to find, but Dichtung seems mysterious at first; it is evident, however, that the latter word refers to the perspective into which Goethe threw his narrative, and according to which the leading events of his early life were given prominence. In the first three volumes of "Dichtung und Wahrheit," Goethe's literary art is of a very high order; but in the fourth volume, which extends...
...taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this...
...skillfully executed events of the day. Hassaurek, '92, won first prize with Hammond, '89, second. Another Exeter record was beaten in the standing high jump, Shead clearing 4 feet, 8 1-4 inches. Heywood was second. The tumbling was entered by ten men, and was another well-contested event. Word, '90, and S. G. Wood, '89, won first and seccond places respectively. The shot putting contest was a surprise to all. Ford entered as a favor to the other contestants, and without training, won with a put of 31 feet, 5 inches. The usual movements on the parallel bar were...
...nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch-word is authority...