Word: actions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Graduates' night performance last evening went off well, despite many of the drawbacks often attendant on a first performance. The play is full of funny situations, but in many places last night the action was allowed to drag; a fault which was enhanced by the fact that two or three of characters did not know their lines...
...last meeting of the board of directors of Memorial Hall action was taken whereby a member of the hall leaving on account of sickness will not be held responsible for his board beyond the Tuesday following his withdrawal, provided that at the time of giving notice he shows a doctor's certificate of his sickness, and that he had no reasonable opportunity of giving notice at the time of his withdrawal...
...action opens with a prologue, but the speaker is interrupted by a citizen, one of the spectators, who leaps on the stage and demands that the actors introduce a citizen like himself into the cast. To this the speaker demurs saying there is no one left to take the part. The citizen's wife, who has joined him by this time, suggests that Ralph, their apprentice, act it, and to this the players agree. While he is dressing, the first scene of the regular play is acted...
...Board of Overseers to investigate inter-collegiate athletics submitted their report to the Board at their meeting last Wednesday. The report was laid on the table, and will probably be taken up at the next meeting of the Board on March 13. In the meantime a report of the action of the committee is being printed, to be sent to the Overseers...
...Sophomore class meeting last night, called to take final action on wearing class buttons, it was resolved not to adopt the plan...