Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are many improvements in the fare and service of Memorial that can still be made. The remarkable readiness of the steward to act on the slightest suggestion, and the activity of the members of the present Board of Directors give good grounds for prophesying that as new improvements are suggested, they will receive due attention...
...could be guilty, we hereby visit him with this our censure. The manager of the nine is perfectly willing that these placards should be taken away as soon as the game which they announce has been played; but rightly considers that anyone taking them before the game, commits an act of petit larceny...
...most finished manner. On Saturday, especially, everything passed off without a flaw, accident, or delay. The popular airs chosen for the songs proved to be taking, and were well rendered by the chorus, especially the "Ding Dong" song, given behind the scenes, at the beginning of the second act. The solos of Baldwin and of Carroll were effectively sung, and enjoyed by all. The strong part of the play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly...
Long, long ago, before the glory of Greece and Rome had begun to fade, there lived in the oriental city of Harvardium a body of wise and venerable men. It was their duty to exercise a protective care over the people, as well as to act on all public measures conjointly with another somewhat numerous but equally learned body...
...year ahead, men practising an hour every day, rowing on artificial machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke, making a boat-load of men act in as perfect union as a machine, has revolutionized the art of rowing, and has placed it in the best of the sciences...