Word: cast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...addition to the following cast of principal characters, there is a chorus of twenty-four of whom W. Cary '93, and S. E. Marvin '93 sing solos...
Although the cast of characters has not yet been fully made out, the work on the play has already begun under the direction of Professor Greenough. The parts will be learned before the end of this college year but the play will not be given until after the midyears next year. Those who remember the great interest which was taken in the Greek play of 1881, not only by the graduates of Harvard but also by classical students from all over the country, will be glad to hear that another attempt is to be made in the same line...
...task of committing the lines is long and tedious. The six or eight months drilling is a hard test on ones patience. Yet since the cast is nearly completed and men have been found to undertake the work, the members of the University can well congratulate themselves that they have before them an experience with which few are favored. There is very little reason why the Latin play should not meet with the same enthusiastic reception that was accorded the Greek play. It ought certainly to have as great an educational influence. Not that it is likely to create...
...honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours will be taken yearly through these cities in the effort to arouse a wide public interest for a better class of plays of literary merit. It is an attempt to save the stage from being cast out of the field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested. The experiment has been tried with success...
...only action of importance at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association on Saturday, was the rejection of the undergraduate rule as proposed by Yale. It is a significant point that whereas a two-thirds vote was necessary to pass the amendment, the two thirds vote was cast against it. This action shows clearly the position which the large majority of colleges represented at the meeting, take in regard to this question. Harvard, with the others, placed herself on record as opposed to the rule, but not because she was opposed to reform. She simply believes that, in the heat...