Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Rehearsals of the Deutscher Verein play have been held nearly every night for the past two weeks, and while much remains to be done everything points to an even more finished production than last year...
...place it must be done sympathetically and not critically. For it is axiomatic that it is impossible to change another man's point of view unless one knows and understands that point of view. Consequently, in trying to influence others one must interweave one's mind and interests, and even will, with the minds and interests and wills of others. To do this, it is necessary, in reading, to know the books and newspapers of the opposite side; and in going into society, not only to try to impose one's own views, but also to allow others to impose...
Harvard scored first, on a basket by Smith in the first minute of play. For a time the scoring was even, but the Pennsylvania team gradually took the lead, and the half ended with the score 16 to 9 in their favor. In the second half, the play was slow and uninteresting, both sides failing to take advantage of opportunities to score, and completely neglecting team-work...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast of the French department, delivered last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room the second of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," the subject being "The Republican Festivals." As a cause for these festivals, Professor Sumichrast stated that during the Reign of Terror and even before it the Parisians were for the most part in a starving condition, and longed for the festivities of the monarchical regime which had always been occasions of rejoicing and feasting. The Revolutionary authorities felt the need of preventing comparisons unfavorable to the new system...
...whole, these festivals were among the most effective, from a spectacular point of view, that Paris had ever beheld, and they proved once more that in the matter of fetes not even the horrors of the Reign of Terror could quench the French love of excitement and display...