Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...English producer of modern dramas and reviver of Shakespearian and Greek plays, spoke to an audience of 600 people in the New Lecture Hall on "Ideas in the Theatre" last night. The lecture was scheduled to be given in Emerson D, but several hundred persons were unable to get in, and the New Lecture Hall, with greater seating capacity, was used...
...Barker spoke of the difference between a good and a bad audience, not measured by numbers, but by the bond of sympathy which may or may not exist between the audience and the actor. "An audience," he said, "can do 25 per cent. of the work, and get a 50 per cent better performance by doing...
...great problem of the socialists today is to find the first to those transited steps which lead to socialism," said Mrs. Kelley, "We must get away from the fatalistic attitude towards socialism and begin on the transitory methods which will lead us onward to the proper goal. The cry that there are practical barriers to all socialistic propositions must be buried. University and socialist literature must be published throughout the land; such news as the University of Wisconsin in several of its departments has recently undertaken. The public school system and the slight democraticism of one branch of the national...
...mankind. It is the man whose moral emotions move in the same way as his rational forces that lives the right kind of a life. We come to chapel as one way of expressing our religion, for experience teaches that worshipping together is best, just as when men get together and cheer, it increases their affection for the University...
...years ago in which it was announced that the College would purchase six leather chairs, provided the treasury could afford it. Mr. Matthews then told of the real start of the University, when John Harvard's bequest of $3,900 and his library enabled the institution to get on its feet. Although in those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements were far from easy. To be admitted one had to be able to read and speak Latin and Greek, to compose Latin verse, to be well instructed in mathematics and philosophy...