Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Nominating Committee proposed the names of four men for the office of chorister this fall--Joseph F. Lautner, Alden French, Hugh Perrin, and R. B. Ayer Lautner got over a half of all the votes cast, polling 163 votes to 74 for Alden French, 48 for Hugh Perrin, and 17 for R. B. Ayer...
Having got the quotation for the week off our chest, we cast about for the necessary anecdote to close with. We'd like to tell how Jonathan Swift became acquainted with the famous Dr. Arbuthnot, but prudence forbids. Here's what a contemporary of his told of Lawrence Sterne...
...play is its absolute freedom from any trace of professionalism. It was written by undergraduates, the music was composed by undergraduates; and even the scenery was designed and executed by undergraduates. The whole production is given by 85 men, 25 in the orchestra and the rest in the cast and executive staff. The cast was selected by E. H. Wever '21, president of the club, and coached by D. C. Stuart, Professor of Romance Languages...
...athletics. It has also helped establish an illusion of life that makes harsh physical effort the thing; even after men go from the campus into business or the professions. . . . The vicious effect of it is this, that it tends to usurp all of one's waking hours and to cast them into activity, banishing that needed and delightful twilight zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine. He has laid an undeserved curse upon a great and worthy company of those...
...final scene with interest and impatience. The part of the lugubrious Dr. Petch is admirably handled by Randle Ayrton, and Philip Desborough makes an effectively unwelcome lover of Ruby. Clara Sidney and Marie R. Burke deserve commendation as Mrs. Delgado and Mrs. Howland, respectively: the rest of the cast is adequate enough. In spite of its advanced theories, then, "One" is worth seeing,--first, because of its novelty, secondly because of its inevitable awesomeness, and finally because of its powerful emotional passages as interpreted by Miss Starr...