Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graceful exit. What a man is right, and what a play, too. Arms and the Man is as thoroughly enjoyable a play as I have seen in Boston for a long time. Anybody interested in forgetting hour examinations, or Princeton games, or for that matter, anything at all, can find no better or pleasanter way of doiag it than by spending some evening at the Repertory. Theatre, sitting in the soft-cushioned, well spaced, comfortable seats. I love a theatre with chairs instead of stocks to sit in. It makes it almost enjoyable to watch plays badly done...
Three years ago the Club produced Carlo Goldini's "The Liar". This eighteenth century Italian comedy is a difficult piece to play and a difficult piece for a modern audience to appreciate. This fall another eighteenth century Italian comedy will find its way onto the Brattle Hall boards, with "The Orange Comedy", an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 from the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, a contemporary of Goldini's. Gozzi wove around the stock characters of early slapstick comedy a story from the Arabian Nights, welding together the comic and the romantic elements. The result is something unique...
...went to Washington for the first international tuberculosis conference held in the U. S. (The second took place last month; TIME, Oct. 18.) Since then he has been whipping his mind to and fro in an effort to find some cause for cancer. Once he thought that this disease was caused by a germ because he found the same germ in cockroaches and cancerous rats that ambled about a Copenhagen sugar refinery. He has modified his views since then...
...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...
...fact that more than a quarter of the students in Harvard College are studying philosophy would seem to mean that very many Harvard men are deeply interested in the effort, be it formally religious or not, to find a meaning in life--or, putting it in a form perhaps more consonant with the Harvard spirit, to find out whether or not there are grounds for believing that there is a meaning in life...