Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several weeks ago you published an editorial urging that a part of the surplus in the treasury of the F. F. B. A. be devoted to the purchase of suitable trophies for the members and substitutes on the football team. No action, however, seems to have been taken in the matter. Is this suggestion of the CRIMSON to be disregarded? I hope not, for it was certainly a good one. The men deserve some recognition of their splendid victory over Yale, and in later years such trophies, if given, will be pleasant mementos of the freshman year at Harvard...
...challenge has been received by the Yale 'varsity crew to row the university crew of the Dublin University, provided the Yale crew goes over to England this spring to row Cambridge. No action has as yet been taken on the matter, but the sentiment is in favor of accepting the challenge, in case the Yale crew goes over to England...
...canons of universal application. Aristotle tried to formulate these canons, but he had little influence on the drama, as the greatest poet lived before his time. He was himself largely under the influence of the "Oedipus Tyrannus." These canons are the so-called "three unities" of space, time, and action. The strict limitation of the play to one spot is not authorized by Aristotle. The simplicity of the Greek plays, and the few possible changes of scene, rendered extremely difficult by the fact that there was no curtain, limited the Greek dramatists to one place. These conditions also rendered...
...unity of plot is a very different thing, and it is as important now as it ever was. Every critic must agree with Aristotle, and every art says undertake only one thing at a time. Unity of action, simplicity of design, and subordination of detail are requisites in every tragedy of lasting excellence, whose purpose it is to purify through terror and pity the minds...
...news of the faculty's action in regard to base-ball has been received at the school with very considerable delight. The idea was beginning to make itself manifest that Harvard's baseball prospects for the future were more than gloomy. But with Clarkson and a few practice games, "we shall see what we shall...