Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross a railroad track ahead of an oncoming locomotive and cannot quite make it. Usually he wakes up shuddering just before the train hits. Very much the same situation confronts the Senior now, with the specter of Divisionals looming up closer and closer before him,-only without the saving grace of waking up and finding it all a dream. Preparation to meet the Divisionals is as hopelessly futile for the average Senior as attempts to get away from the engine in the nightmare. For all that can be said against cramming in the last few weeks, it is impossible...
...usual at the Copley when there is a situation to be saved, Mr. Cliva saves it. His portrayat of the gentle older brother was so graceful and so real that it gave the play dignity that it really does not posses. Mr. Pape as the tyrannical John Cordways, did well with a hard part, that was not developed consistently by the dramatist, as did Miss Willard as Lady Clarissa. Mr. Turner as Robert Dalman, Cordway's secretary, is as yet a very amateurish performer, who although he tries hard, rarely seems either to get out of himself...
...Gallup, Jr., Chairman, Miss Winnifred Wittlesey; Marian Billings, Miss Thelma Dameron; R. H. Chrisman, Miss Grace D. Nixon; George Forrester, Miss Helen Woods; Allen Freeman, Miss Ruth S. Stone; Edward Lawson, Miss Eline Findley; E. W. Lord, Miss Marion S. Fowler; Cullous Mitchell, Miss Phyllis Parker; T. R. Olive, Miss Dorothy Riddle; John Pallo, Miss Beatrice Abell; Harold Walker, Miss Dorothy Kelley; Howard Wilder, Miss Hazel Shennan...
...appropriated $2000 for a free-for-all Senators' trip to the very grounds under debate. Thermos bottles in hand and lunches on the hip the austere reservationists are becoming as little children: it is the Senate picnic. As yet there is no tradition to demand outing clothes such as grace out Seniors on their festive day but grant more time. When the fragments of the picnic have been gathered into baskets and the Senators resume their places in the councils of the nation, a firmness of step, a flush of youth, a clearness and simplicity of thought will mark them...
...Overseer of the University, and also Revered Professor Theodore Gerald Soares D.D., of the University of Chicago. The other members will be Professor Edward C. Moore D.D., who will continue as chairman; Reverend Paul Revere Frothingham '86 D.D., of Boston; Reverend Charles L. Slattery '91 D.D., rector of Grace Church, New York City; and Reverend Willard L. Sperry of Boston...