Word: ben
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee and Banjo Clubs gave an informal concert on the steps of Holworthy last evening. Both clubs were in good practice, and the large audience spent a very enjoyable evening. The "Darktown Patrol," by the Banjo Club, and "Ben Bolt," were especially well received. After repeated calls, D. C. Greene '95 rendered the solo "King Charles" with fine effect, singing wholly without accompaniment...
...George P. Baker gives an excellent account of the English play, which was produced here during the past winter, in the article entitled "Revival of Ben Jonson's Epicoene." In concluding his article, the writer dwells on the advantages to be derived from the revival of an interest in Elizabethan drama...
...Buckman, Burgess, Murphy, Kennedy. Stolen bases - Grant 2. First base on balls - Kennedy, Rand 2, Whittemore 3, Buckman. First base on errors - Harvard 3, West End 3. Passed ball - Casey. Wild pitch - Falls. Struck out - Grant 3, Murphy 2, Roberts 2, Kennedy 2, Gayton 2, Powers 2, Bigelow. Umpire - Ben Cook, Jr. Time...
...Ben Bolt...
...stage. The reporter above quoted has misrepresented the facts. What the speaker said was as follows: "The best plays are the old English comedies, because naturally the students in a university will be sufficiently educated to appreciate the fine writing of these plays - those of Sheridan, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, etc. By appreciating them, you can render them better than those who cannot appreciate them. If you were to begin to play say farce comedy for your own amusement and the amusement of the audience, that would not be study, it would be a case of claptrap. That I should think...