Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" is good farce, rarely overacted, and better than "The Ghost Train". The first act, a medley of devices for stalling for time, is ideally suited to the risibilities of any audience, including the Elizabethan. Harvard men will be interested in an attempt to put on the stage in musical comedy plot two characters of embarrassing resemblance to prominent members of the English Department...
...last year's report it was pointed out that the tutors' time was so absorbed by their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things. They were asked whether limiting the time when their pupils might confer with them to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week would give relief, but they replied that, so long as the regular routine of the college proceeded, their relations...
...story of that spring season at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre is far better known than that of any other successful play of equally long ago, because the theatre cash book for this year has been preserved. Mr. Gay secured it, and it is now one of the notable treasures in the Harvard Library, where the Theatre Collection and the English Literature section are striving to make good their respective claims to its custody. A pack of cards, on each of which is one of the tunes or a verse from one of the songs of the opera...
...concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested the state of affairs described by the widely touted Miss Cabot...
...sentimentalists say it is the second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...