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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty-five teams have entered in the Leiter Cup baseball series. This large number deserves a word of comment, for it shows a lively and increasing interest in intramural sport which does not demand too assiduous attendance. This interest is in striking contrast to the miserable support received by the class crews, which for a couple of weeks after they were called out could scarcely boast eight men apiece. The explanation of this discrepancy is clear: daily rowing--and attendance at this must be regular--involves considerable drudgery; while scrub baseball, in games and practice alike, is good fun. Although...
...immediate interest in this connection and in pleasing contrast to the ever present athletic report, is the series of articles on Harvard men prominent in music, arts, and letters published in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. In these five articles on Harvard artists, poets, editors, composers, and dramatists appear the names of many of the foremost men in each of these branches of intellectual activity. The series is a quiet refutation of the current charges of backwardness in these fields. Does it not seem that the fault lies rather with the public and the press, than with the University itself...
...movement. He has a trick of handling things, putting them down, only to take them up again immediately before renouncing them for good. His face shows the effect of sleeplessness, and his grey flannel shirt and coarse clothing are crumpled and neglected." The role of Michaelis is in striking contrast to that of Steven Ghent in "The Great Divide," but like Ghent's it calls for Mr. Miller's repressed style of acting and quiet authority. Mr. Miller as Michaelis, will be supported by a company as strong as the original cast which appeared with him in Mr. Moody...
...that its central theme,--the influence of a dead love on a living one,--is obscured again and again by the most obvious kind of an attempt to furnish thrills, and "sustain the interest." There is a bloodcurdling lynching in the first act, the sensationalism of which is in contrast to its trivial significance in the tragedy. It is a symptom of the danger that Mr. Sheldon's peculiar talent carries with...