Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...
...students of the University of California have subscribed $1000 toward a fund to send their athletic team east...
...country is particularly harmful in its effects upon the preparatory schools. It is not to be expected that young boys should set their ideals higher than those which seem to move their elders; and certainly of all the activities of the college men of today, those directed toward the attainment of the athletic ideal are the most conspicuous. The school boy sees almost no side of college life but the devotion to athletics in one form or another, of which he has constant evidence. The real intellectual work which is being done, he cannot see, and the importance attaching...
...waning. There is a heavy decrease in expenses, yet the surplus is much larger than usual, due to increase in individual subscriptions. This will be devoted to worthy class and university purposes - such as a loan fund for needy students, a gift of $500 to the library, a donation toward the Woolsey statue...
...country. This upland slopes gradually down from a height of 1400 feet in New Hampshire to the coast line, where it sinks into the sea. Although generally level, this long stretch of land is broken by mountains, sometimes isolated and sometimes in groups, and also by valleys running toward the sea. When travelling through the valleys one does not realize how level the country really is, but from a high point of view the comparatively level sky line can be seen...