Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this dedication, there will be a regular meeting of the Unit at the Medical School at five o'clock. In the evening at Beacon Hall, Coolidge Corner, there will be a reunion of members of the Unit consisting of a dinner at 6.30 o'clock and a dance at 8 o'clock...
...Modern and Beacon this week, the feature picture is "Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Travelling Salesman", a comedy done in the usual Arbuckle style, but lacking the customary amount of laugh-producing "pep." Perhaps the cause of this can be found in the fact that the picture, instead of being written for Mr. Arbuckle, was adapted from a stage play. In the case of a comedian whose humor is so peculiarly distinct in its character as is Mr. Arbuckle's, such a procedure has its difficulties, since the comedian must adapt himself to the play, rather than the play to himself...
President Lowell's speech, which dealt chiefly with the relations between the colleges and the scholars of the land, began with a tribute to Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University of Virginia, saying of him that "in his later years of well-earned repose, he lit here a beacon to diffuse the light of learning he held needful for the people he had served so long...
...schools which have entered the meet are as follows: Beacon School, Brookline High, Dorchester High, Framingham High, High School of Commerce, Lynn Classical High, Lynn English High, Moses Brown School, Noble and Green ough, Phillips Andover Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Plymouth High, Providence Technical High, South Boston High, St. John's Preparatory School, Tilton Seminary, Wakefield High; West Roxbury High, Winthrop High, Worcester Academy and Worcester classical High...
...average spectator who hails from districts foreign to the solemn traditions of Beacon Hill, is astounded at his display or merriment. And he is perplexed as to its source. Whether it be simply an unrecognized playfulness in the makeup of Boston's citizens, or whether it veers to the other extreme in the shape of a seriously perverted sense of humor, is hard to say. Whatever its excuse, it must be as irritating to the actors as it is to the playgoer who wants to get his money's worth of thrills, shudders, or sighs...