Word: background
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Leonard, R. MacVeagh, G. Mather, E. K. Merrihew, H. M. Pivnie, J. P. Rice, H. B. Richardson, E. St. John. G. E. Stephenson, J. Tyler, R. Warren, A. L. Washburn, A. G. Winward, D. J. Witmer and C. H. Wolfe. The sweaters have blue numerals on a white background and must be ordered at Brine's before Thursday...
...given last night in the Fogg Lecture Room by the Rev. Henry Churchill King, D.D., LL.D., President of Oberlin College, on "The Ethics of Jesus." The speaker in this lecture introduced his subject and laid emphasis on the fact that we must see the teaching of Jesus as a background to his ethical teaching...
...exclude all narrative and religious teaching of the Gospels. The ethical teaching is inexplicably interwoven with the religious, and Jesus never separated the two, but for the sake of convenience an arbitrary division has been made. The great proportion of the teachings of Jesus are ethical with a religious background...
This cultural contrast gives the background for the story, which deals with the love affairs of the Princess. Many episodes in the play hardly noticed by the average spectator, have historical bearing; for instance, the part of Eckhoff, which Hanfstaengl played splendidly. The play does not say what every German knows, that this soldier who joins the actors, was to become the greatest actor of his time...
...east end of the Living Room of the Union, where it will remain for the next few days. The picture shows President Eliot seated at his desk with a pen in his hand. The figure is in full light while the rest of the picture forms a dark background of red and brown...