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...plainly enough it is your duty to prevent any one from injuring it. Evidently you cannot fulfill your obligations so long as you say to the depredators: "We are very, very indignant; but we are all brothers, and perhaps you were intoxicated; so we'll pay the damages and screen...
...orchestra was the open place for the acting. There was probably no raised stage, but actors and chorus stood on the same level. The stage buildings were at first merely rough structures in which the actors could change their dress, but they were much elaborated later, and a screen was put up before them called the "Proscenion," on which was painted the scene appropriate to the play...
During the lecture many pictures from photographs of the tombstones in Athens were thrown by the stereopticon on a screen in front of the audience...
Still more recently two of the waiters of the Hall became engaged in a petty scuffle behind the screen. Instead of allowing this occurrence to pass without notice, as its pettiness might have suggested, a number of students jumped into their chairs, others began to applaud with their feet and hands. These actions were undignified and entirely unworthy of Harvard men. We are sure that those who took part in them do not realize that as the officers of the Hall cannot act as policemen, good order in the Hall depends not a little upon the self-control of every...
...lecturer illustrated his remarks by numerous experiments, one of which was very beautiful. The magnified image of an are light was thrown upon a screen, and its intense heat shown by burning a clay pipe...