Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Library are his parents, William Farnsworth '77 and Mrs. Farnsworth, of Boston. The greater part of the books have been given by Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth or by their fiends; other come from the library of Franklin Haven '57, of Boston, given to the Widener Library by his sister, Miss Mary E. Haven...
...they were asked by a disinterested person why they came here rather than to Colby, or Dartmouth, or New Hampshire State, they would not know. A man, or a boy or twenty cannot answer that mother liked the Crimson color, or father thought it was near home, or sister Susle wanted to see all the big games. Nevertheless, how many times does the presence of a man here hinge on reasons not one whit more sound...
...give the greatest effect. The audience is prepared by the first two acts for some clever and dainty trifle in the third, but the audience finds itself very near tears as it watches an act of high beauty and real poetry. The scene between the Professor and his sister at the window of their cottage is nothing if not poetical, both in feeling and in the really important though subordinate matter of stage setting. And as regards stage setting. Mr. Arliss is not following the modern tendency towards simplification. His scenery follows the conventionally detailed tradition of Sardou...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...
...rebuilding of the Newberry organ, made possible by a gift of $25,000 by Truman Newberry, Yale 1885 S., John S. Newberry, Yale '06, and their sister, will be concluded during the present fall...