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Dion Boucicault and Cibber were both not only playwrights, but also actors and managers. This two-fold capacity was to each a hindrance as well as a help It helped them in adapting their ideas to the needs of the stage, but at the same time it tended to produce artificiality. The beginning of Boucicault's dramatic work was practically in "London Assurance," which appeared about 1840. It was criticised as "a mere imitation of Sheridan," but Sheridan in his turn was indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps...
...difficulties that oppose Christian work in college life are three-fold. The body of students is continually changing, so that it is hard to gain and keep a foot-hold in any work. Secondly, men become so absorbed in their studies that they are wont to devote their leisure to recreation. Thirdly, few men come to college interested in Christian work...
...several excellent points in favor of some radical change. However, instead of outsiders criticising the Union and suggesting sweeping changes in its constitution, why would it not be well for them to organize a new debating society altogether ? Two societies will increase the interest not twofold merely, but many fold. Each will stimulate the other. Joint debates might then he arranged between the two local societies as a preliminary to the Yale debate A new debating society is needed here at Harvard - not because the Union is a failure, for it is not. but because in a University of this...
...work of the prophet is four-fold; literary, political, moral and religious. As a literary man he contributed in addition to his own addresses, articles to contemporary history. In a political point of view the prophet was distinctly a statesman, as he interpreted for another and lead public opinion. The moral tone of the prophet was of the highest order and his religious work had a strong tendency to put down the worship of many gods. The spirit of the prophet's work was an unselfish, sympathetic and uncompromising one, truly courageous and hopeful...
...Beta Kappa election will be held before long in accordance with the regulation providing for it at any time after the beginning of the second half year. It will be remembered that at the meeting of the alumni society last June the plan of election was, with a two-fold purpose, changed from a strict adherence to rank; first, to permit the choice of men who deserve the honor but have been prevented by illness or other unavoidable circumstances from reaching the requisite rank; secondly, to permit the rejection of those whose marks are good but whose abilities...