Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fiske's benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League will be given in the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Fiske will play in the fourth act of "Becky Sharp" and immediately afterwards in the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." The program will also include recitations by Mr. Holbrook Blinn, and original monologues by Miss Beatrice Herford...
...interest of the undergraduates in play-writing and dramatic criticism has received a stimulating impulse. Last year the Dramatic Club came into being, and it has already made a distinct place for itself in the University. Considerable experimenting has been done by students in the writing of one-act plays, and with the additional incentive of these prizes we may expect further development of dramatic writing at Harvard...
...Fiske and her Manhattan Company will give a benefit performance in aid of the Animal Rescue League in the Hollis Street Theatre on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The program will include the fourth act of "Becky Sharp," followed by the fourth act of "Tess of the d'Aubervilles." Mr. Holbrook Blinn and Miss Beatrice Herford will also furnish part of the entertainment, the former by reciting, and the latter by giving some of her original monologues...
...Symphony Hall this evening: 1. Coronation March, Moyerbeer 2. Overture, "Stradella," Flotow 3. Waltz, "Girls of Baden," Komzak 4. Selection, "Rigoletto," Verdi 5. Selection, "Faust," Gounod 6. Reve Angelique, Organ, Mr. Marshall. Rubinstein 7. Valse and Pizzicato from Suite "Sylvia," Delibes 8. Overture, "William Tell," Rossini 9. Introduction Act III, "Lohengrin," Wagner 10. Prelude to "The Deluge," Saint-Saens Solo for Violin, Mr. Hoffmann. 11. Selection, "Bright Eyes," Hoshna 12. March, "Flag of Victory," Blon
...certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence. We are tending in America to make a fetish of degrees. Moreover, in conferring the degree itself we are in danger...