Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is no English or American theatre devoted to the staging of the plays of Shakespeare; we do not value the 'glorious inheritance' of his work. Before an audience can be expected to sit through a drama of Shakespeare, it must learn the Elizabethan language; this is the real problem of Shakespeare today. It is a deeper question than of our personal culture and pleasure...
...drama, and that the opportunity is given to so many of you to study it under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent you won't get a good theatre. There will not be an American Shakespeare until we get a theatre he would be willing to work in and he would never work in the American theatre as it is now. Let us get the theatre as firm and decent a thing as we can, so that he can do his best when he does come...
...Davis, 3L., who had been relegated to the minors by the New York American League Club, under Mitchell's tutelage won a no-hit, no-run game from the Philadelphia nine, the hardest hitting team in the league...
...Kelley's subject was "The Current Task of American Socialists" and frequently she brought up her experiences as a social worker at the Henry street settlement in New York. As secretary of the National Consumers' League she mentioned her broad acquaintanceship with the Socialists of the country and their work...
...second University Medical Unit has arrived safely at Falmouth, England, the "Nordam," of the Holland-American Line having docked early Saturday morning. The Unit is under the leadership of Dr. David Cheever's '97, professor of surgery in the Medical School, and includes 30 surgeons and 36 nurses. They will continue the work of the first Unit which was sent to Europe last June at the request of Sir William Ostler, of Oxford, England, and which has just completed a three months' tour of duty at a British Base Hospital near Boulogne on the French coast...