Word: wrote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washburn, who wrote "Fair Harvard," has a serial melodrama in John Swinton's Paper...
...freshman wrote home to his father: "Dear papa-I want a little change." The paternal parent replied: "Dear Charlie-Just wait for it. Time brings change to everybody...
...sacrilege to many that Gilbert has taken the material for his new comic opera Libretto from Tennyson's poem "The Princess," yet it can scarcely be wondered at in this busy age, when even Shakspere cannot escape being travestied by popular playwrights. Early in his literary career Gilbert wrote a burlesque of the Princess for one of the leading London theatres, and it is merely this burlesque, remodeled and polished up, that has achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant." The plot...
...year he was connected with a book club, the members of which read Scott's novels far into the night. He had a taste for declamation, in which he was greatly skilled, and thus gained a Boylston prize. He also displayed marked ability in English composition, and what he wrote was of much excellence. In his junior year he wrote an essay on "The Character of Sociates," for which he gained a Bowdoin prize; and again in his senior year he took a second prize for an essay on "The Present State of Ethical Philosophy." He had much skill...
...been possible to find an equivalent for the classical languages as a centre of instruction; and therefore the university cannot deem it advisable for the state to cease to require a Gymnasium training for its future functionaries." There is no doubt about the sincerity of the faculty who wrote this report, and the fact that this faculty, composed in a large degree of men whose special attention was given to purely scientific subjects, reiterated this opinion in such strong terms in 1880 adds great weight to the views of the classicists...