Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...short, just as the work bids fair to become easier, just as the duties are being learned, the way is paved for the removal of the most permanent part of a far too changeable Committee...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" for its tenth annual Elizabethan revival...
There is very little plot, and the action centres around the four principal characters: Littlewit, a proctor; Busy, a Puritan; Cokes, an esquire of Harrow; and Overdo, a justice of the peace. The scene is laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where...
...present $3 guarantee, which was offered to preserve the stability of the hall while a better system was being inaugurated. However this may be, the scheme was adopted by a substantial margin, and deserves all support for the month of march, if the trial is to be a fair one. There are many men, not now enrolled as members, to whom a transient membership should be a great convenience, and many more who will be attracted by the low cost of regular board now assured. To those who have studied the scheme carefully, its rational provisions for all classes...
...That the resident Executive Board has not taken the matter up has been through lack of any specific charges. Certainly such an excuse can no longer hold good. If use of the Gymnasium is to be more beneficial than dangerous, if the basketball team is to be given a fair chance, not only must the building be given a through renovation, but strict sanitary regulations must be enforced...