Word: act
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach "Pooch" Donovan and Coach Morrill will continue to train the track squad regardless of the international situation. At present it is planned to hold interclass, intercompany and even informal meets with neighboring institutions, if the intercollegiate schedule is abandoned. In the meantime, while waiting for the nation to act, track work will continue as usual...
...Dramatic Club presented its spring group of one-act plays in the Hasty Pudding Theatre last evening. The performance showed the result of some extremely competent coaching by the new director, Mr. S. A. Eliot, in a general evenness of acting and quietness and realism of tone. Exception might possibly be taken to the sombre quality of all four of the plays produced. The curtain rose on a death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour...
...annual spring collection of clothing, magazines and text-books under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House will be made on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. A list of men who will act as collectors in the various dormitories will be announced in the course of a few days. Men who have any articles they wish to give are requested to deliver them to the collectors in their dormitories, while those living in private houses who wish to contribute are requested to bring their offerings to the nearest dormitory. A wagon will make the rounds on Thursday, April...
...scream. With all respect we would suggest that a screaming eagle is not a happy symbol for any nation, that what our patriotism suffers from more than anything else is a super-abundance of screaming, and that perhaps when we have ceased to scream we shall begin to act...
When the conflicting aspects of the act are balanced, the predominant effect of the legislation is plainly to secure information by requiring an experiment to be made. In laying down an eight-hour day as the measure of a day's pay and requiring that wages be not reduced, the Act merely fixes the necessary outlines of the experiment. The commission is appointed so that the information obtained by the experiment may be intelligently presented. The fact that the operation of the Act is strictly limited to not more than eight months, is the strongest single fact which gives...