Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second and last succeed in getting the proper response from the audience; nor is this owing to any lack of situation, for the playwright is blessed with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police in allowing the burglars to escape...
...clearly why the private school man captures the athletic prizes and the public school graduate wins the scholastic honors. In the first place, as a general thing only the picked men who have won intellectual distinction in the public schools continue their education into advanced fields; on the other hand, practically all private school students enter college. Also, it is to be noted that a large number of the public school men in the honor lists receive a stipendiary scholarship, a consideration all too potent in the competition for academic distinction...
...signs indicate that the latest one will repeat the success of "The End of the Bridge" and "The Product of the Mill." It is a strongly effective and original comedy from the pen of John Frederick Ballard, and it touches American life and manners with a light and sure hand. It never oversteps the bounds of legitimate humor, and its dramatic moments are on a high and perfectly rational plan. All its happenings are possible, and the dialogue is lifelike and brilliant...
Members and graduates of the University not holding such tickets must fill out applications which may be had at the Athletic Office, at Leavitt & Peirce's, and at the Co-operative Branch store, and hand them in before 5 o'clock this evening...
...Class Dues, 400.80 Balance from Junior Dance, 91.57 Balance from sale of Class Buttons, 30.25 Incidentals, 11.50 $536.65 EXPENSES. Class Smokers, $452.95 Student Council Dues, $20.00 Printing, 25.00 Refund from Junior Dance, 5.00 Expenses Senior Election, 16.50 Incidentals, 8.90 $528.35 Total credit, $536.65 Total expenses, 528.35 Balance on hand...