Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...characters of the play were supported with great formality. It will be remembered that at the representation of "Oedipus" in Sanders' Theatre, the actors made all the use they could of earnest and vigorous action and elocution. The Cambridge students, however, delivered their speeches in a calm dignified manner, apparently with the desire to imitate yet more closely the dramatic style in Greek tragedy. The chief parts were played by young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played...
...correspondent in a communication published in this issue, comments upon the action taken by the Conference Committee at its last meeting. This dissatisfaction is due to two causes, partly to the inaction of the Conference Committee in the first two meetings, but mainly to an extravagant expectation, on the part of the students, in keeping with neither common sense nor the nature of the Conference...
...true that the resolutions passed at the last meeting might have been passed at the meeting before. This in action deserved censure, but it by no means justifies the extreme stand taken by our correspondent. The communication is based on several misapprehensions. In the first place the conference has not concluded the discussion of the marking system. The conference, again, was not organized "to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system is unjust," nor were the resolutions passed designed to tell the students anything. They were intended to tell the faculty something, and this...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Conference Committee has ended its consideration of the marking system, the question may fairly be asked, how far it has fulfilled its purposes; to what extent it has satisfied student expectation. We see that much criticism of its non action has been ill-timed, when we recognize the difficulties connected with the subject with which it has to deal. Before any conclusion leading to an improvement of our status could be arrived at, much time necessarily was consumed. Hasty action would have been very undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking...
...proposed system "met with general approval," why was it not recommended to the faculty as a possible improvement over our present system? The difficulty is that the student members as a whole do not realize what is expected of them. Why does the committee exist unless for action, as well as discussion? Discussion without resulting action is practically worthless. To this fact that they do not appreciate their powers is due the result that three months of conference have produced two resolutions that, as regards weight of thought, could just as well have been passed at the first...