Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short a time ago as 1908, is, ultimately, to promote the interest of the rising generation in good citizenship, but as Mr. Holmes points out many subsidiary aims are accomplished. the method is one which must appeal to every sensible person in an age when life in the open air, and the ability to put hand and head to a practical use is so much appreciated. The glory of the Boy Scout plan is that it promotes a device for usefulness in boys, by urging a further participation in those interests which are most natural to them...
...began by showing how much the universities can help towards bettering the conditions of the theatre. Some universities have realized this, and the University of California, in particular, has built a Greek theatre in the open air for the production of plays of real dramatic worth. The public is also awakening to the responsibility owed to the theatre, and leagues have been organized in various cities for the advancement and the strengthening of the best in. fluences of the drama. On the other hand, the theatre can bring to the university man the great art of the drama...
...MacKaye began his career as a dramatist in 1904, and soon gained great distinction. His first play, "The Canterbury Pilgrims", is one of his best, and was acted in the open air by the Coburn Players at Harvard and at a large number of other universities. In 1905, he published a tragedy entitled "Fenris the Wolf", and a year later "Jeanne d'Arc", which was produced by E. H. Southern and Julia Marlowe in both America and England. His next important works were "The Scarecrow" and "Mater", both written in 1908, the latter of which was put on the stage...
...brisk wind and cold air that blew across the field put more snap and ginger into the men than they have shown for a week. Everyone who played in the Carlisle game was out in fine condition, both regulars and substitutes...
...purposes of proper ventilation in the summer time the subway is built in two independent tubes instead of in a single double-tracked tube. On account of this method of construction, which is the same as that employed in the sub-aqueous tunnels near New York, the air is kept passing through the tunnels, and being constantly renewed, each train sucking after it a supply of good air and pushing out the stale air...