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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should come indeed to an end of that traditional antipathy between town and gown, once so keen in a certain New England collegiate community that when one of the dormitories of the college caught fire the citizens sat out on a neighboring hillside and cheered for its burning. Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/23/1917 | See Source »

...Hallowell Davis '18, of Brookline; Henry Vincent Fox '18, of Dedham; Richard Roelofs, Jr., '18, of Cripple Creek, Col.; Allan Lee Whitman '18, of Cambridge; George Cary Barclay '19, of New York, N. Y.; C. Canfield '19, of Roslyn, L. I., N. Y.; and Francis Parkman '19, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARKER HEADS 1917-1918 STUDENT COUNCIL | 11/21/1917 | See Source »

...following committee was appointed to confer with the Athletic Committee on the future status of the major sports: Robert Ellsworth Gross '19, of West Newton; Willard Wise McLeod '19, of Malden; and Francis Parkman '19, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARKER HEADS 1917-1918 STUDENT COUNCIL | 11/21/1917 | See Source »

...William Hodge is something like a college football team. Dartmouth, for instance, always has a certain following in Boston, whether it has a 'crack or a cracked football eleven. So with William. He has his following, reaching as far down as Saco, Me., doubtless, and whether he has a good or a poor play, his following will turn out to see him triumph over the villains and kiss the prettiest girl in the show. The out-of-town trade may miss the kiss in catching the late train home, for it's the last thing on the program; but that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 11/21/1917 | See Source »

...glorify his country. Hodge talks through his nose, but he, too, glorifies the country--the rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes him. N. R. O'HARA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 11/21/1917 | See Source »

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