Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...discussion will be strictly informal, small tables being placed throughout the room at which men may smoke and refreshments may be served. Men participating in the debate should realize that decisions reached will have a direct influence on later authoritative action, as representing undergraduate opinion. To aid in crystalizing these decisions, a vote will be taken at the close of the debate, the result of which will later be acted upon by the Student Council. The Forum will be open only to members of the Speakers' Club and the Union...
...started more quickly, and showing more speed in covering ground. The most noticeable defect is still the lack of head-work in team-play, and the failure to keep places in line. The puck is worked toward the opponents' goal by individual bursts of speed rather than by concerted action. The defence of both teams, though not phenomenal, is strong enough to ward off an attack no more powerful than the present one. Carnochan and Washburn are both doing good work at goal, few points being scored on either except from scrimmage...
...action is electro-pneumatic, an extremely delicate one capable of developing great speed. Indeed, the mechanism of the finest grand piano is far slower and less responsive than that of this type of organ...
...production in general was careless and inadequate, yet the play "scored." There were nine curtain calls after the third act, seven after the fourth: this the sincerer compliment to Mr. Biggers. The action needs quickening in a few places and the dialogue, compression; on the whole both would be creditable work at the hands of a playwright of long experience. There is, throughout, the "Biggers touch" which we have come to know in many delightful stories, deft character drawing, a humor that is original, refreshingly American...
...general culture of the people in the Southern nations, Latin America is too unjustly thought of by the rest of the world, and does not deserve the ridicule which is often heaped upon it. Contrary to popular belief, its inhabitants are not mentally inert, and stagnant in action. Those who travel there are surprised at the intellectual vigor displayed in matters of science, literature, and judicial culture. It is true that this activity has as yet no solid foundation, and that the masses need to be further educated. But this end is being rapidly accomplished through the medium...