Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Webster's plays, the best is "The Duchess of Malfi," dealing with crimes and horrors, as do all his others. He is constantly introducing all manner of unhappiness brought about by terrible means, and the crimes which his characters do not commit might be regarded as not worth committing; but the play, for all its hideousness, is redeemed by the imagination and poetry it contains, Webster does not excel in his plots and characters, but his dramatic situations are very effective, and once seen are not soon to be forgotten...
...Penalties for foul plays are not sufficient. (a) Players often deliberately commit a foul and risk the penalty...
...regards the study of poetry three rules may be laid down. First, commit much to memory. Nothing will help us so much to understand why the poet has chosen each work and why he expresses himself as he does. Second, choose one master and study him; know him perfectly and understand his ways. Third, when you have learned what you can from one master, study others and compare them with your master...
...letter from the secretary of the Yale Union was received a few days ago. The Yale Union asked whether the question for the next debate would commit the affirmative to a sudden destructive policy, and the answer sent was that it would not. The Yale Union also stated that the date for the debate would be between April 16 and 20 if that would be agreeable to Harvard...
...recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits that with the membership of teams limited to university undergraduates, "the future...