Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...club received an especially enthusiastic reception in New York and won much favorable comment. The book was good and worked up into a reputable plot, as musical comedies go. The singing was on the whole excellent and although it savored at times of the regular college burlesque, still there was a marked absence of the dramatic barbarisms which too often overflow undergraduate theatricals. The chorus was most attractive, the "girls" wearing their clothes naturally and dancing extremely well...
...your editorial comment this morning on a communication which challenges the motives of "preparedness," you say that it is "inconceivable how anyone can charge that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination...
...several years the increasing scope and excellence of the Dramatic Club productions have been attracting consider-able attention and favorable comment outside the University. In Cambridge, however, students make up but a small part of its audiences. As home-made performances the Dramatic Club plays have to overcome the prejudice against unpaid good acting. In their present form they are amateur only in the fact that the club members stage, manage, and act the plays without compensation...
...from other colleges undoubtedly suffer a disadvantage in the selection, for whereas we have had opportunity to watch the Harvard players all season, we have had the chance to see the others in action but once, to their possible disadvantage. From the one observations, however, and from general press comment throughout the season, the CRIMSON believes the above to be as fair and as just a selection as is possible on any such mythical aggregation...
...pity that so much of the verse in this number lacks both substance and form and that ambition to produce fancy work displaces ambition to produce works of art. Better poems are written almost daily in Harvard College than those which appear in this number. A similar comment might be made on the prose, which exhibits nearly everywhere insensibility to fine workmanship...