Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finances in those days were a problem. Once Lawrence Barrett played six tragedies in a week and made $3.46. Edwin Booth in his best days was glad to make $1000 in one week, and that covered expenses of his whole company. I commend the theatre to you in both its past and its present for instruction as well as amusement...
...actresses who appeared at the Museum. The very names ought to interest your generation, for I'm sure they still are of interest to mine. There were, to name a few, the elder and younger Sothern, John Drew, the elder and younger Booth, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, the Wallacks, E. L. Davenport, and Eleanora Duse...
...American Society for Psychical Research, founded by Sir William Barrett and Dr. Hodgson and maintained for many years with distinguished ability by Dr. James Hyslop, appears to have fallen on evil days and no longer to be actuated by pure and disinterested motives. For this reason, Dr. McDougall explained, it has been thought necessary in the interests of science to found another society which shall be committed to no dogma or hypothesis and whose business shall be to investigate and record facts by scientific methods and with the help of special sciences and of photography...
...Paine Hall of the Music Building, the University debaters contested with Yale, upholding the affirmative side of the subject: "Resolved, That this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility in college education." D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and D. L. Dickson '27 were the Harvard speakers. The Yale team was composed of J. G. Becker, E. L. Richards, and J. McH. Hopkins...
...teams are as follows: Harvard affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, D. L. Dixon '27, and J. F. Davidson '27 and M. N. Drake '28, alternates. Harvard negative, J. R. Creel '27, E. G. Wesson '25, E. A. Smith '26. The alternates will be E. J. Metzdorf '26 and F. W. Lorenzen '28. Yale negative, J. G. Becker '26, E. L. Richards '25, J. McH. Hopkins '25. Yale affirmative, E. G. Jenkins '27, J. C. Hume '25, B. Davenport '26. Princeton affirmative, B. Dunham '26, C. A. Howard '27, J. P. Lee '25, V. V. Ravi-Booth...