Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening of the first act, one derives the impression that the humor is to be poor, and the action weak, this fear is quickly dispelled by the entrance of Miss Fisher as Annabelle Leigh, who has a husband somewhere, and Mr. Nicander as George Wimblton, who recognizes the day after New Year's as the only time when he is likely to be sober. Once they have made their appearance the dialogue is transformed into a new and ultimate thing fairly overflowing with life. Characterization and personality appear as if by magic, and the whole action is enlivened and lightened...
...Harvard Club of Boston will give a dinner to the record-breaking crew of 1916 in the clubhouse Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Nicholas Bidde '00 will act as toastmaster, while the dinner committee is made up of George S. Mumford '87, Robert Fulton Blake '99, James Lawrence '01, Samuel H. Wolcott '03, Robert M. Tappan '07 and Leverett Saltonstall...
...temporary headquarters at Thayer 67, north entry. The officer hours are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 4 to 5 o'clock. Chairman of the Bureau W. M. Horton '17 is anxious to see all men having persistent difficulty with their studies and all good students willing to act as informal advisers...
With secret practice every day the policy of other colleges sending scouts to learn the individual personality and tricks of different players loses its principal value. If daily practice were open to everyone, colleges would be certain to send men to act as scouts, and an unhealthy side of the game would be fostered instead of discouraged...
...Bertrand Russell, the English Liberal philosopher, who has been forbidden, under the provisions of the British military service act, to leave England for the purpose of lecturing at Harvard University, and who has been commanded to live within a restricted area of England, where his movements can be strictly observed, is by no means the spy or marplot which these prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation...