Word: cater
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...credit balances. All other minor teams had deficits of varying size that had to be met from the general fund. In other words any advantages that the rule may have possessed have ceased to operate, but its evil effects are as strong as ever. The basketball team has to cater to the public by arranging games in Mechanics Hall, and all the teams have to send their candidates on unfruitful tours through the University in search of support. It is high time for the infeasibility of this system to be openly recognized and for the minor teams to be given...
This evening the University basketball team plays its most important rival, Yale, in Mechanics Hall, Boston. Much as we regret the policy that forces the basketball management to cater to the public instead of the University, the importance of the contest as between college rivals should not be lost sight of for a moment...
Three short plays will be given this year in place of the customary long presentation, and it is hoped thus to cater to more varied tastes, the three plays being of a widely different character. They are, in the order of their presentation, Labiche's "J'Invite le Colonel," an amusing comedy; Banville's "Gringoire," a play of pathos; and "La Gifle," a broad farce by Dreyfus. A novelty at the performance will be the singing and dancing between the acts. The rehearsals have been under the direction of M. d'Armand, who has had considerable experience in dramatic teaching...
...already have so many organizations with more or less worthy purposes that another seems somewhat superfluous. The Cosmopolitan Club, however, will cater to a class which has at present no representative organization, although its possible members form a much larger number than are enrolled by many of the small and specialized societies which annually spring into existence...
...success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions. The real cause of all the unpleasant publicity concerning the actor and his private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors and actresses live the lives they portray is laughably absurd...