Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Common Room last evening. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor of Latin and Greek, was elected president, and Robert F. Sharp '37, secretary treasurer. Alan M. G. Little, instructor of Greek and Latin and retiring president, was praised for his efforts in making last year's Latin play a success. Brief plans for the year were mentioned. The remainder if the meeting was devoted to a talk by Mr. C. M. Bowra, visiting lecturer from Oxford, on the subject, "Avenues of Classical Study" Mr. Bowra answered questions after his talk. Beer and crackers were served. There was a large number...
...about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result of her midnight dash to the deathbed...
...Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...
Jerome D. Greene '96, Tercentenary Director, holds the first scene with a brief introduction. Among the sequences which follow are; the conferences at the Law and Medical Schools, a long shot of the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, the fireworks on the river and the torchlight procession, and the concluding events, the Academic Procession and speeches of Friday's Alumni meeting...
...Club's Fall Play will be held at the Big Tree Swimming Pool next to the Hygiene Office today. From 2 o'clock until 6, and from 7 until 11 o'clock auditions will be given all undergraduates with no discrimination as to class or previous experience. The first brief trials will test only the voices and appearances of the candidates. Next week the director of the play, a New York coach, will select the actual players for the fourteen male parts. Radcliffe and Erskine School are counted upon to supply twelve actresses...