Word: brief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tomorrow evening Mr. Copeland will give a brief address on "The Life and Work of Sheridan," and read from Sheridan's farce "The Critic" before the Philadelphia Teachers' Association...
Many Seniors who have conscientiously filled in the answers to the questions on the class lives are now at a loss to know just what is wanted on the blank pages at the end of the pamphlet. The instructions suggest a brief sketch of the life that may bring out points not covered in the questions. Many men declare that these are so general and so numerous that nothing else is left to the average undergraduate...
...story dealing vitally with an ever-important theme--a son's belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud...
...days Professor Clemen will have finished his activity among us and, after a brief tour of the West, he will return to his regular duties at the University of Bonn. Permit me to express the hope that Professor Clemen's last days in our midst will be made particularly pleasant to him through evidences of appreciation of what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel...
Dean Hurlbut, in a brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...