Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the visiting committee, who is a member of the North Shore Garden Club, which is interested in the work of the Garden and has contributed to its work, said that "we have always had hard sledding to get funds. The University has always given us $3000 yearly to pay off the debt of the Garden, and we have raised $5000 to carry on the work. Last spring the University, after the debt had been paid, would not continue to contribute their $3000 to the Garden any more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has furnished the university with many escapes from the academic world. It has led us from Wild West Nebraska to Central Asia, from the most backward part of Mexico to the most advanced section of Hollywood. Except for a musical comedy, its more recent productions have been off-center to the border of insanity; the tortured hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest...
Undergraduates at Cornell pack Bailey Hall for concerts, they provide a moderately large audience at the Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...
...Journey's End" is by now so well known that very little need be said of it. It comes to the Wilbur next week, displacing Katherine Cornell's vehicle. "The Age of Innocence". A gripping war play that was first written for production by an amateur mens' club in London and hence contains no female parts, it is even more effective than the success of some years ago, "What Price Glory". In common with most of the more recent literature about the war, it makes no use of melodramatic narrative, but instead paints a series of unforgettable characters and scenes...
...Credo of a Snob," with special reference to Harvard men, will be the subject of a lecture by Professor R. E. Rogers '09 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be given at an open meeting of the Liberal Club Monday evening...