Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of the proper ventilation of recitation rooms has by this time passed from the status of a trite subject to that of a classic one. Nevertheless, we shall not repeat the remark that a college which provides instruction in chemistry, physiology, and hygiene, and which also compels its students to breathe poison for several hours a day, may perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature...
June 22 is the date set for the annual University-Yale Classic at New London. The University, Junior and Freshman eights of both universities will row at this time...
Meanwhile, Boston is having a taste of what such a theatre would be able to do. Walter Hampden, at the Opera House this week and next, is without doubt the greatest patron in America of Genuine repertoire. His program includes both "classic" and modern plays of the best sort; his experimenting with occasional plays that are not as generally popular as they should be, is one of the particular opportunities of such a theatre; and his whole method of procedure, with a company of trained and versatile actors, and an intelligent producing force, is in the right line. Supporting...
...moment of quiet between, the halves even those most biased can applaud the captains. In the attractive age of classic mythology these men would be heroes, eternally sung. In the age of the Church they would be ranked with the saintly, "cloud of witnesses". Neither conceptions have much appeal to this age which rather feels it is a question of ideas, an that the sparks from the anvils of many workers have at last lit a cleansing fire which promises to destroy the evils that they hated and leave the air unpolluted, undisturbed, as they would have...
...Comedie Francaise, is to follow Georges Clemenceau as a visitor to Boston this week. On Monday night Mlle. Sorel and her associates from the first French National Theatre, M. Albert Lambert and M. Louis Ravet, will begin a week's engagement at the Boston Opera House, presenting modern and classic dramatic masterpieces in French, opening in Emile Augier's "L'Aventurlere...