Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 9, 1907, the words, "Arrest Six Harvard Men at Theatre Riot" appeared as the feature headlines on the front page of the Boston Herald. Similar caption came out in the Advertiser and the other morning papers. The occasion for this riot which caused so much disturbance and comment, both in the University and around Boston, was the opening performance at the Majestic Theatre on Monday night, April 8, 1907, of the play "Brown at Harvard," which the Dramatic Club has recently chosen for its spring production...
...only a scribbling satisfaction but also legitimate learning accrues to these marginal decorators. A book which inspires comment has provoked at least a semblance of thought. Indeed an annotation may sometimes indicate an idea which the text book author might well have considered...
...University has been held to indicate a return to undergraduate favor of that activity. The Oxford-Cambridge team which has visited this country in recent years has brought with it a new and lighter attitude towards debating, the influence of which it is not hard to see. The following comment on last weekend's debate against Yale, from the Boston Transcript, challenges the humor which is being espoused in this country as a forensic weapon. It follows in part...
...Koussevitsky conducted the performance with his usual verve and spirit and when that is said there is really no need for further comment. Mr. Koussevitsky has the faculty, unfortunately too rare, in conductors of getting the utmost out of the score as well as from the musicians under his baton. It has been said that an orchestra is largely the conductor, and this may be taken as a case in point. M. Koussevitsky brought the best out of the singers and players alike in a way worthy of the plaudits which the house showered upon...
...tabloid journals flourishing today are at once a subway commonplace and a surface enigma. In the current Nation, Silas Bent undertakes to analyze their status and, after some purely journalistic comment, reaches this conclusion: the tabloids have discovered a new public. For, these new papers, easy to handle, to read, to look at, have run, in the city of New York for example, into a circulation of one and one quarter million copies without having proselyted from the older dailies, even considering retarded progress as well as actual impairment, more than one hundred thousand purchasers...