Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Greene '02 read his essay on "Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp."--It was in part as follows...
...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...
...works in their totality. The play ends conventionally, dropping spectators back into the sunny, sleepy commonplace of average existence. The novel, on the other hand, leaves one with a profound realization of its tragedy, --"played out." Its lesson is that human beings must ultimately go somewhere beyond Vanity Fair for lasting happiness. Without changing the motley for the gown, Thackeray has preached the world a great moral truth. But Mr. Mitchell leaves Becky so well off that one rather sympathizes with her misdemeanors...
...March, "Cruiser Harvard" Strube. 2. Overture, "Pique Dame," Suppe. 3. Waltz, "Grubenlichter," Zeller. 4. Selection, "San Toy," Jones. 5. Overture, "Sphinx," Thompson. 6. Waltz, "Jolly Students," Vollstedt. 7. Selection, "The Viking," Loud. 8. American Fantasy, Herbert. 9. a. Serenade, Whipple. b. Yankee Recruit, Whipple. 10. Selection, "Florodora," Stuart. 11. Fair Harvard, 12. March, "Up the Street," Morse. The Glee Club will sing...
...Reading of Bowdoin Prize Essays. The Rise of the Oil Monopoly. Mr. G. H. Montague--Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp. Mr. R. M. Green. Harvard...