Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all the nervous preparation that precedes the youngest daughter's a debut, Harvard is decorating the house--stringing advantageous lanterns and fabricating white fountains in exciting places. The Yard is rapidly losing its staid respectability and assuming the artificial glamor which distant relatives and more distant story-writers expect of it. And the Seniors, most of whom have too much to do at present any way, are losing many valuable hours on tours of inspection, on discussing the whys and hows of the water system. The bandstand is as yet in too embryonic a state to attract attention...
When the University crew makes its official debut on the river against Pennsylvania next April it will be taking the first step in a schedule calculated to test its power to the limit. Not in years has a University eight faced a task such as is called for on this season's program, for not only does the crew card list the names of five of the leading combinations in the country, crews that have during past years won highest honors in intercollegiate rowing, but it contains many other racing features including the usual meets with...
...Saturday by an 11-4 score. Goode twirled for five innings and except for the second inning allowed few men to reach first base. In the second Tufts made her first three runs by following a base on balls with two triples and a double. Bigelow made a creditable debut in the last four innings by holding Tufts to three hits and one run. Behind the pitchers the Crimson players put up a first class defense, a slight misplay by Owen being the only check to perfect fielding...
...learn with regret that the company which two weeks ago made its apparently successful debut at the Copley with "Ruddigore" has come to a sudden end. The illness of one of the leading performers and a dwindling patronage are the rumored cause of this untimely debacle. By one of those freaks of luck so common in the theatrical game, a company, blessed with no little talent and a house of proper size for the audiences which its work should attract, has nevertheless been unable to keep its head above water. It is a curious thing that Boston is not only...
Miss Homer is the daughter of the famous American contralto and made her concert debut with her mother two seasons...