Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...break. Harvard on the other hand was a decidedly inferior crew in the early part of the season as was indicated by the two defeats it suffered as above stated. However the eight has made immense strides since coming to Red Top. There has been this year considerable newspaper comment stating that Yale had a better crew than Harvard and that she would be expected to win. Those in the Harvard quarters who have followed the crews closely in the three weeks on the Thames see no real justification for this confidence. The figures of the two time rows...
...editorial comment and miscellaneous matter contained in the issue are fully up to the standard so well maintained by the Illustrated throughout the year. The forty illustrations are fitting and varied, and serve to liven up the issue, making the Senior Number one of the best that has yet appeared and one quite worth while securing...
...first editorial comment is in a tone of apology which does not strengthen the impression of the issue as a whole. The choice of physical education as a general subject is fully justified by the various side lights thrown on it in the offering of both graduates and undergraduates. The editorial on educating students to realize the importance of regular exercise neglects Physiology 1 as a possible starting point for the combination with gymnasium and outdoor instruction to form a real department of Physical Education...
...play which are brought out only by an adequate performance. The audience is especially selected with a view to the value of its critical judgment, and each member is asked to submit a criticism in order that the play may be rewritten in the light of the general comment. Professor Baker has made a life work of the teaching of technique of dramatic composition. Though not subservient to popular tastes, he is eminently practical, urging his students to write with a view to a New York production. The work of such of his students as Edward Sheldon, D. Carb...
...past: Siegfried is as simple as "Home, Sweet, Home," and twenty years hence, to the successor of a certain Harvard instructor who, after a performance of one of the most modern compositions of D'Indy or some one of his sort, wrathfully departed from Sanders Theatre with the comment. "I did not come to Sanders Theatre to hear a reproduction of the noises of the street," this same music may be as pellucid as the pool of a mountain stream. All this, however, gives the Victorian little help in his present task. All of his loves--very respectable indeed...