Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporting for football is the first act of the Freshman class. The Freshman eleven, facing Andover in its opening game, is the first official contribution of the entering class to the University. In the long run this contribution will be little more then the clink of a coin in a bucket. But there is a gain from in giving, and if the gift is small, the gain may be great...
...firs time since its inception two years ago the H. A. A. News gives, in its current issue, a full explanation of the function it strives to fulfill in the life of the University. According to its own editorial statement its chief purpose to act as an authentic organ for the voicing of H. A. A. policy." With such an object in mind the News should greatly increase its value this year to all Harvard men, both alumni and undergraduates...
...several years Detroit has had an organization known as the Bonstelle Playhouse, run by Jessie Bonstelle. In this theatre many good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
...Liam O'Flaherty, like all other Irishmen, was interested. To him the act was not a futile political gesture. Instead, he personalized it. What, he asked, did the assassin think of, before; what did he do, after...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...