Word: climax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From the point of view of the under-graduate Commencement at present may almost be called an anti-climax of Class Day. At the end of a four-year course, a student passes through the brilliant celebrations of the Senior Spread, the Ivy Oration, and the Yale baseball game--then to file into the cramped and out-grown space of Sanders Theatre for the most vital hour of his College life, leaving his family to see the glass flowers or visit Concord and Lexington in the interini. The fathers and mothers, especially those who have come from the West...
...success of the football season which came to a climax Saturday will make the year 1915 long memorable. The eleven of 1915 is especially fortunate in having as its leader Captain Mahan, the most successful scorer in all Harvard-Yale football. For Captain Mahan's twenty-nine points alone equal the greatest number which Yale has ever scored against the University, excepting the year 1884; and it is greater than the total made by Harvard against Yale in any one game with the exception of last year. Congratulations are due to Captain Mahan and his most successful of all University...
...bewildering aerial attack, completely baffied Captain Wilson's men, and they were defeated 16 to 7. Colgate, since downed by Syracuse with a 38 to 0 shut-out, was the next visitor at the Bowl, and a few trick plays gave them a 15 to 0 victory. The climax of the slump came when Brown, last Saturday easily defeated by the University substitutes, took the next game...
...been fixed since the days when the Puritan fathers waxed thankful for bounteous crops. But as far so college men are concerned, they would undoubtedly favor a week-end holiday which would allow many of them to eat turkey in their own homes, and save the inevitable anti-climax of the following blue Friday and Saturday...
...should have ended at the close of the third act, but, evident deference to the box office, which is still apt to insist that a play should end happily, resulted in a fourth act of stereotyped reconciliation and happy conclusion. That the play was not ruined by the anti-climax in this act, is proof prositive that it is a drama of exceptional power. For, in spite of its improbable ending, it is a strong play...