Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...postpone its annual luncheon and dinner at this year's Commencement and turn over to the American Ambulance Service at Paris the money that would otherwise be used to defray the expenses of the two gatherings. The idea is extremely practical as well as highly commendable; and the action is typical of the hearty response of the University and its graduates towards alleviating the suffering on the European battlefields...
...mistake of trying to get it on the fly, the ball kept rolling toward the Charles while Abbot completed the circuit. Deyo then settled down and the next five University players failed to see first. Brickley broke the charm with a single over second in the fifth, but action of a run-getting variety was delayed until the next inning...
First thought may prophesy unpopularity for earlier classes, but college men are not the "molly-coddles" that popular action would have the world believe. An hour taken from the middle of a precious afternoon and placed before the "nine o'clock" would mean no hardship. On the contrary, such a change would put the academic and the athletic each in their proper spheres, and would make an arrangement of the college day much more logical and much more generally beneficial than that now existent...
...hymns of praise and the joy of the conquerors, but Euripides sees only the misery of the vanquished. For him the living drama lay in the tears of the conquered women and it is from them that he has named his play. Around them he has built up the action of the piece, setting forth the personalities of four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector; and lastly, the false Helen. Amidi the droning chants of the woeful choruses we see the suffering of these four. The scene in which Andromache played with...
...this country was seriously aroused by the lingoistic attitudes toward the Mexican question of the less cool. The experience of the University during that period taught that far from being a feather-bed for slothful patriotism, undergraduate Harvard is often a hot-bed of too hasty and too vigorous action. Before some of the more impetuous again seek to organize military companies in the College, it would be wise to await official declarations of the stand of our Government...