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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard and fast vacation rule works especially harshly on those who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this year is of one man who must return three days early from California in order to attend one Friday class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO CAMBRIDGE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERSE ENGLISH | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year, this miracle play is having its first presentations in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous, and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed consists of nine scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB WILL PRESENT MIRACLE PLAY TWICE TODAY | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year this miracle play is being performed for the first time in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB GIVES MIRACLE PLAY TONIGHT | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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