Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With T. J. Campbell '23 still in the running, Yale has a sure point winner in the 880-yard run. Campbell won the 880 in the Harvard-Yale meet, and came in well ahead of the field in the Oxford-Cambridge classic last summer. D. S. Bush '24, who placed third against the Crimson yearlings, will also be available for this department next spring. These two men will, in addition, probably be entered in the 1 mile run, both having placed in this event in their meets with the University...
...University, with a total of 195 points, took eighth place in the thirteenth annual intercollegiate cross-country run on the new Van Cortlandt Park course, in New York City yesterday afternoon. Cornell, placing six men out of the first ten to cross the tape, won the harrier classic, for the ninth time, registering a low record of 18 points, while her nearest competitor, Princeton, ran up a score of 87. Syracuse was third with 108, while Yale was fourth in the team standing, with 111 points against her. R. E. Brown of Cornell won individual honors finishing in 32 minutes...
...follow the present system of distribution to its logical conclusion, it may yet be that future undergraduates will be denied altogether the privilege of witnessing the Harvard-Yale classic. RICHARD JENNEY 2E.S. CLEMENT J. TRUITT...
...their work thus far shows clearly that many of them are likely to achieve something really worth while. For the most part they have been singing pieces well-known to the musical world, such as "Carmen" "Riggelatto", "Faust", and "Aida". In these they have done admirably, giving to each classic a treatment worthy of singers of the highest rank. Besides the works, with which American audiences are better acquainted, they have put on "La Boheme", one of Puccini's greatest masterpieces, sung far too seldom on this side of the water, and more recently "La Forza del Destino" by Verdi...
...situations are constantly reused, and that when some one starts an idea like the adventures of a vamp or the mischances of a comedian in a pie shop, for years we have nothing else. This view overlooks the truly startling originality of the profession when it deals with classic literary materials. Then its imagination shows boundless liberty or at least takes boundless liberties. New York Evening Post